The Role Of Women's Suffrage In Utah

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I scrolled through the list of articles and found one that was about Utah, so I felt obligated to read an article about the best state in America. The article is about Women 's Suffrage and the Constitutional Convention for Utah 's statehood.

In 1870 Utah was the second state/territory to allow women to vote (the Wyoming Territory) but the right to vote was removed by the federal government in 1887 with the Edmunds-Tucker Act. This act was passed to prevent the LDS church from practicing polygamy but the act removed women 's right to vote.

In 1895 a Constitutional Convention was held to get statehood for Utah and the debate for women 's suffrage began. Many people were in support of it and so it was added to the proposed constitution but