1. Wyoming passed suffrage in 1890. How many states gave women the right to vote in the 27 years of the women's suffrage movement between 1890 and 1916? 2. New York granted women’s suffrage in 1917. It was the first state in the East to do so. How many states gave women the right to vote in at least one election in the three years after New York, but prior to the passage of the 19th Amendment?