Women’s voting rights was a hot topic trending in the United States from the year of 1896 through the year 1918. States such as Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Washington, California, Oregon, Kansas, Arizona, Alaska, Illinois, Montana, Nevada, New York, Michigan, South Dakota, and Oklahoma ignited the suffrage laws. Primarily, the mid-west and west coast were the initiators within the state Constitutional amendments. (See Women’s Voting Rights Map for more details)
Along with voting rights, women were finally starting to have a true voice in U.S. democracy. The United States is slower when it comes to reforming social issues than other countries. In comparison, European countries started adopting women’s suffrage laws later but the turnaround time for women to be elected to government-related positions in Parliament were increasingly fast. European women holding jobs in Parliament occurred before women in the United States were ever elected as an elected official in government.