When did women get the right to vote in the United States?
By the end of the nineteenth century, Idaho, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming had enfranchised women but this did not allow women to vote in federal elections. It was not until 1920, with the ratification of the 19th amendment, that women could vote in national elections. “It had been a long and hard fought battle, however, to achieve this important milestone, and it took many generations of supporters for women’s suffrage lecturing, lobbying, and practicing civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans, at the time, considered a radical change to the Constitution. The balance finally began to shift in favor of women’s suffrage in 1918 when U.S. President Woodrow Wilson changed his position to support the amendment.” http://www.usefultrivia.com/history_trivia/modern_history_trivia_002a.html “The Women’s suffrage movement was formally set into motion in 1848 with the first Women’s Righ
