Question

URGENT PLEASE!!

During the 1889 constitutional convention, residents of the washington territory.
amendment giving women the right to vote.
A. passed
B. refused to vote on
C. ignored
D. voted down

an

Answer 1

In the 1889 constitutional convention, residents of the Washington Territory passed an amendment giving women the right to vote.

Therefore, the correct answer is: option A). passed

Step-by-step explanation:

The convention met at Olympia on the fourth day of July, 1889, and adjourned on the twenty-second day of August, 1889. The residents of the Washington Territory voted down an amendment giving women the right to vote.

The women's suffrage movement had seen various levels of progress and setbacks across the country with some territories including women's suffrage in their state constitutions and others, like Washington at that time, rejecting it.

Notable suffragists like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton fought tirelessly for the cause, drafting amendments and organizing groups such as the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) with strategies interpreting the Constitution as already guaranteeing women the right to vote, while also facing significant legal challenges, as seen in the adverse Supreme Court ruling in Minor v. Happersett (1875).