What region of the nation seemed most willing to grant woman suffrage without a national amendment?

1 Answer
May 9, 2017

The West

Explanation:

The West served as a sort of laboratory for women suffrage, Wyoming gave woment the right to vote in 1869.

"The 19th Amendment, granting suffrage to women, was approved by Congress in 1920. It was over fifty years previously, however, that Wyoming had entered the Union as the first state to grant women full voting rights. The next eight states to grant full suffrage to women were also Western states: Colorado (1893); Utah and Idaho (1896); Washington (1910); California (1911); and Oregon, Kansas, and Arizona (1912). "

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