Before women in the U.S. had the right to vote, how were they able to vote in that they get the right to vote?

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ontheroadagainwithoutyou,
The right to vote has always been opened wider by the ones already having the right to vote.
The first ones to vote in America were the men of certain religion and land owners. Those men opened it up to free men that were not land owners and in some colonies they did not have to be of the same religion.
Then the door was opened a little wider to let in the black former slaves. Still had to be men at least 21 years old. {Amendment # 15}
Along came Amendment # 17. The men aged 21 opened the voting door a little wider and the local men 21 and older could now vote for their local U. S. Senators. Before they were elected by the state legislatures. But not the male citizens of the state could vote.
The men, age 21 and older, passed Amendment # 19 giving women the right to vote. The door to the election booth was open a bit wider.
Amendment # 23 was added to the US Constitution to give the citizens of Washington D. C. the right to vote in the Electoral College. Again the door to the voting booth was open a little wider. But you still had to be 21 to vote.
Amendment # 24 eliminated the so called "Poll Tax" charged by many states in the south to keep the free black men and women the right to vote. They way it worked you had to pay a tax in order to vote in the elections for that year. If you did not pay it you could not vote.
And finally the 26th Amendment gave men and women age 18 and over the right to vote. The 18 year old did not pass the 26th Amendment it was passed by the 21 year old and older.

So the women did not pass the 19th Amendment the Men age 21 + did.

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States/Territories that granted women suffrage before the passage of the 19th Amendment:
1) Wyoming- 1869
2) Utah- 1870 (as a territory), removed by U.S. Congress in 1887 with the passage of the Edmunds-Tucker Act, re-established in 1896 in the initial Utah state constitution.
3) Colorado- 1893
4) Idaho- 1896
5) Washington- 1910
6) California- 1911
7) Oregon- 1912
8) Arizona- 1912
9) Illinois- 1913 (for President and all offices not specifically mentioned in the Illinois Constitution, so only partial suffrage)
10) Montana- 1914
11) New York- 1917

However, by the time the the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920, only the following states had no women's suffrage: Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Now, most of the states that allowed partial women's suffrage before 1920 were not interested in women's rights, but they were interested in keeping women in as few elections as possible while stating that they were for women's suffrage (especially if you see what they were and were not allowed to vote in with some of the states, and whether if it was statewide or just in token cities)....Show more

They formed pro-suffrage societies, demonstrated and petitioned for a long time. They eventually won in 1920, with the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. That Amendment gave women the right to vote....Show more

The men in Congress voted to allow women to vote....Show more

Republicans noticed the problems and petitioned to pass the amendment...Show more