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The interactive maps below show the woman suffrage campaign year-by-year and state-by-state from 1838-1919 as suffrage activists introduced legislation that often failed and at other times yielded only partial voting rights.
But along the road to winning the vote nationally, states and localities granted suffrage to women within their jurisdictions. This list documents many of those milestones in winning the vote for American women.
Explore the history and geography of woman suffrage campaigns from 1838-1920. Maps show the year-by-year efforts to win legislation state by state, while in more detail we narrate the successful campaign of the National Woman's Party to pass the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.
Follow the ratification process and connect to the places where the historic struggle for women's suffrage resonates.
Women’s Suffrage in the U.S. by State. Compiled by the Center for American Women and Politics – August 2014. Contrary to popular opinion, the 19th Amendment did not give women the right to vote - it guaranteed women the right to vote.
5 cze 2019 · 24 Photos. In Focus. One hundred years ago this week, on June 4, 1919, the U.S. Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which would guarantee women the right to vote,...
A map of woman's suffrage successes as of 1917. The states that had adopted suffrage are colored white (or dotted and crosses, in case of partial suffrage) and the others black. On the whole, western states and territories were more favorable to women's suffrage than eastern states.
