ere given many rights in Wyoming first. These rights included the right to hold political office. Due to this right Wyoming had the first justice of the peace in Esther Hobart Morris. Then after that precedent was set Nelie Tayloe Ross became the first woman Governor of Wyoming. Another group that was formed in 1869 was called the National Women Suffrage Association. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton led it. They concentrated on getting an amendment to the Constitution passed that would make it mandatory that women be allowed to vote. Unfortunately, neither of these groups was very successful on their own. It was not until they united in 1890 and formed the National American Women Suffrage Association that they began to persuade people (Columbia 2000).Although the Fifteenth Amendment did not mention women’s suffrage at all, Susan B. Anthony interpreted this law to mean that along with the ex-slaves, women, too, were allowed to vote. On Election Day, she and twelve other women went to the polls in Rochester, New York, and convinced the people that were working to allow them to register to vote. Two weeks later, all of the women, as well as the three people that had been working at the polls when the incident happened, were arrested. Anthony did not receive a fair trial, but halfway through the trial, the judge was afraid that the jury was going to vote in her favor, so he dismissed the jury and let Anthony off with a fine of $100. She would not pay this, but she was not punished for her refusal, because the judge was scared that she would take the case to a higher court. None of the other women were brought to trial for the incident, and neither were the men that let the ladies into the polls although they did receive fines (Microsoft 2000). Slowly, the women began to make progress. Colorado granted suffrage in 1893, and Utah and Idaho followed in 1896. By, 1918, the states of Washington, California, Kansas, ...
