How the Vote Was Won – Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868–1914

How the Vote Was WonWoman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868-1914\nAuthor(s): Rebecca Mead\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814757222, 978-0814757222\nSynopsis\nUncovers how women in the West fought for the right to vote\n By the end of 1914, almost every Western state and territory had enfranchised its female citizens in the greatest innovation in participatory democracy since Reconstruction. These Western successes stand in profound contrast to the East, where few women voted until after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, and the South, where African-American men were systematically disenfranchised. How did the frontier West leap ahead of the rest of the nation in the enfranchisement of the majority of its citizens?\n In this provocative new study, Rebecca J. Mead shows that Western suffrage came about as the result of the unsettled state of regional politics, the co.