Although the women’s suffrage movement began in Seneca Falls, New York, the first woman to vote in the United States cast her ballot in Wyoming. Before officially becoming a state, the territory of Wyoming passed the Wyoming Suffrage Act of 1869 which gave women over the age of 21 the right to vote and hold office.

Reverend William Miller was born in Pittsfield, Massachussetts but moved to Poultney, Vermont at a young age. It was here in Poultney that Miller would create his following that by 1843 would be estimated to have around 50,000-100,000 people involved. While not every follower really beleived what Miller had to say about the end of the Earth being very near, most couldn't help but to listen out of curiosity. Even with technical limitations in the media, Miller's theories spread through out the United States far outside his home of Poultney, Vermont.

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