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Answer: In the mid-1800s women began to seek support from others to pass legislation that would give them the right to vote.
The women's suffrage movement involved traveling to give lectures, writing the government, lobbying the government, and holding civil disobedience events such as hunger strikes, vigils, parades to bring attention to the cause.
Supporters of the women's suffrage movement were sometimes jailed and abused for their participation.
New Jersey temporarily granted unwed women the right to vote back in 1797, when it adopted its constitution that gave all inhabitants who owned fifty pounds of property the right to vote. In 1807 the law changed and only free, white males were allowed to vote.
In 1868 women in Wyoming were given the right to vote if they were over the age of 21. Wyoming was almost denied statehood because of this law but the state refused to budge. Wyoming became the 44th U.S. state in 1890, 30 years before women in the rest of the states would be allowed to vote.
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