Question

After the civil war, which territory became the first to allow women to vote

Answer 1

It was Wyoming, a Western American state, and it happened in 1869. Even though the suffragists' fight for women's right to vote was mainly directed toward the Eastern states, as the most progressive and liberal, the first state to enfranchise women was a Western one. However, some scholars say that the reasoning behind this was not all that progressive: they merely wanted to attract more women to their isolated country.