Name that State/Territory
This U.S. territory granted women the vote in order to defend the practice of polygamy
What is Utah?
This legislator pushed for women's suffrage in order to torment the governor.
Who is William H. Bright?
This party long advocated for “a temperate ballot” (women’s right to vote on measures related to the sale of liquor)
Who are the Prohibitionists?
This U.S. territory passed a suffrage bill in hopes to attract more women out West, evening out the men to women ratio.
What is Wyoming?
This Populist Governor publicly shamed women voters and drove other Populist states from granting suffrage.
Who is Davis Waite?
For over a decade, this party controlled the executive branch and held majority in both houses of Congress.
What is the Republican Party?
These U.S. territories approved women's suffrage referendums to gain more support for changing the minting silver ratio.
What are Colorado and Idaho?
This leader of NAWSA changed the organisation's strategy from focusing on state by state legislation to working towards a federal amendment.
Who is Carrie Chapman?
This party contributed to a suffrage referendum passing in California by expanding advocacy across classes and working with women's clubs and labor unions.
What is the Socialist Party?
These three U.S. states (west of the Mississippi) were the only ones that had not fully enfranchised women by 1917.
What are Texas, Arkansas, and New Mexico?
This person wrote Women and the Republic (1887) and argued against woman suffrage because Colorado women proved to be "practitioners of a strain of exalted fanaticism."
Who is Helen Kendrick Johnson?
This party aimed to improve the economy and help farmers and industrial workers.
What is the Populist Party?
This U.S. state was the first to grant women's suffrage through actions state legislation instead of a constitutional amendment.
What is Illinois?
This Montana Representative became the first woman in Congress.
Who is Jeanette Rankin?
WILD CARD:
This U.S. Supreme Court case resulted in the decision that women had no federal voting rights.
What is Minor v. Happersett (1875)?