Wyoming Trivia (Renamed)

[wyoquilter]

Originally Posted by Claim Jumper

was it? you act as though you are not sure--therfore i grade you a B-

From my book, and i realy wish i would of bought more for gifts--this book would retail for $20 or more.
WYOMING TERRITORY AND WOMENS SUFFRAGE

The frontier was a land of promise to women as well as men, but for all of their greater freedom, the one thing they shared with their sisters in the East was the fact they did not have the right to vote. Mrs. Esther Hobart McQuigg Morris was determined to change that. Wyoming was still a territory in 1869 when fifty-five year old Mrs. Morris arrived from Illinois to be with her husband and two grown sons in the minning camp of South Pass City. Her mind was firmly set on getting the women the right to vote, and she believed her best opportunity was with a territorial government in the West. Territorial elections were scheduled for the fall of 1869, and the legislature would be taking up the issue of drafting a state constitution. Representatives of the state constitution convention would also decide who would be allowed to vote. As long as their rules did not violate the federal Constitution--for instance, as long as they did not forbid African Americans from voting--Wyoming and other territories were allowed to chose which of its citizens would be allowed to vote--including women. This was Mrs. Morris chance, and she passionately went to work.

After his election to the Wyoming Terrotory legislature, William H. Bright, at the urging of Mrs. Morris, introduced a women's enfranchisement bill. The legislature approved it. Despite pressure from antisuffrage groups, the territorial govenor signed the measure into law.

Wyoming petitioned Congress for statehood, and the issue came up for vote in 1890. Considerable controversy arose because the propsed state constitution contained a clause granting women the right to vote, something no other state in the Union had. A group of women telegraphed their representatives in Washington, D.C. and said if that issue was the one item barring Wyoming from statehood, it should be deleted. They were sure of its renewal. The men of the Wyoming territorial legislature gallantly replied, "We will remain out of the Union a hundred years rather than come in without women."
Wyoming became the fourth-fourth state on July 10, 1890--the first state to grant women the right to vote. Esther Morris was amoung the honoured guests participating in the ceremonies. She presented to the new state governor a fourty-four-star flag made by the women of Wyoming.

your turn wyoquilter

Well I wasn't 100% sure, I was also thinking it may have had something to do with the Native Americans and maybe they were trying to back out of treaties or something.

Okay, This one will probably be easy:

Name the WY town who was the first in the nation to be governed entirely by women also what was the year/s?

[ElkHunter]

I love this thread. I learn so much. Every day when I log on, I go here first.

So, wyoquilter, what's the question?

[wyoquilter]

The question is:

Name the WY town who was the first in the nation to be governed entirely by women also what was the year/s?

[ElkHunter]

hahaha, we posted at the same time.

But wait, I know that one. Jackson Hole had all women as officials in 1920.

[wyoquilter]

Originally Posted by ElkHunter

hahaha, we posted at the same time.

But wait, I know that one. Jackson Hole had all women as officials in 1920.

I knew that one was too easy. You are correct. Okay now it's your turn.

[Claim Jumper]

Originally Posted by ElkHunter

hahaha, we posted at the same time.

But wait, I know that one. Jackson Hole had all women as officials in 1920.

Bettcha it was a tough town-sotta speak...

Here is a footnote to my post when wyoquilter got the answer---its regarding a antisuffrage...

One of the first efforts towards women's suffrage occurred in 1848 when Eastern feminists gathered in Seneca Falls, New York, and issued a declaration of women's rights. On that list was the right to vote.

After 1869, women in Wyoming voted and participated in other civic duties, including jury duty. A few years later, Boston newspapers published a story by a "prominent gentleman from Wyoming" who testified that women's suffrage had been a catastrophe in the Wyoming Territory. When someone telegraphed the mayor of Cheyenne seeking "the particulars concerning this prominent gentleman," he wired back, "A horse thief convicted by a jury, half of whom were women."

[ElkHunter]

Wow, it's wide open. Let me see......

Where was the FIRST woman mayor elected in the United States? What was her name? Hint, just 6 miles up the road. What year? It's an easy one. haha

[WyoNewk]

Google gives me this, repeated times: Susanna M. Salter of Argonia, Kansas -- 1887.

[ElkHunter]

Originally Posted by WyoNewk

Google gives me this, repeated times: Susanna M. Salter of Argonia, Kansas -- 1887.

No, haha In Wyoming. Guess I wasn't specific. But it is the Wyoming Trivia thread. hahaha

[ElkHunter]

Might have been, but here in Wyoming we had Susan Whissler in Dayton Wyoming, it 1911.

So I'll give that one away.

What town is the smallest in Wyoming? It officially has a population of 1. It is the smallest "Incorporated town" in Wyoming. It's one of three towns in the US.