Elsie Grow researched and wrote this paper as a high school student participating in Utah's National History Day® (NHD Utah) program in 2020–2021. Through NHD Utah, students develop research and historical thinking skills through active learning. Grow was a senior division state winner, a member of Utah's national delegation, and a recipient of the Glen and Caroline Miner Prize in Utah History for this essay. Katherine Kitterman worked with her to prepare this article for publication. NHD Utah is a program of the Utah Division of State History.
In the spring of 1895, the members of the women's suffrage movement in Utah saw an opportunity to regain the right to vote. In 1870, the women in Utah Territory had gained the right to vote, becoming some of the first women in the United States to do so. However, in 1887, Congress passed the Edmunds-Tucker Act, which took away the right...
