566 Chapter 21 The Age of Reform
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May 21, 1919, House
of RepresentativesThe Advance of Woman SuffrageIn 1869 Wyoming, still a territory, voted to give women the vote. The next year, after Mormon leader
Brigham Young endorsed woman suffrage, Utah followed. Then came Colorado (1893) and Idaho (1896), frontier states that sought to attract
women settlers. In 1911, by a margin of 3,587 votes, California endorsed woman suffrage, and within three years the remainder of the western
states had done so, too. World War I stimulated support for the Woman Suffrage (Nineteenth) Amendment. The May 21, 1919, vote in the House
of Representatives shows that most of the opposing votes came from southern congressmen who believed that woman suffrage would be the
first step toward securing the vote for blacks.