User:Kspyle/Women's Suffrage in Kansas

= Women's Suffrage in Kansas = The right to vote was extended to women in 1920. Kansas women were among some of the first to earn this privilege, as the Kansas territory was seen as a pilot state to begin the long battle of Women's Suffrage and extending equality acts to women. The first women's rights convention was held in 1848, 13 years before Kansas had become a state. This time difference did not stop the spread of women's right throughout the west. Women's rights were left out of the constitution, but the west was a new territory to expand upon and build upon equal rights for all individuals. Kansas was a major component of this transition of colonizing the American West.