As part of the effort to gain the vote, advocates for women’s suffrage campaigned to secure the right to vote in state and local elections across the country. Individual states had the authority to enact legislation granting women’s suffrage in all balloting, except for national elections. Suffrage leaders believed that if enough states granted women the right to vote, it would be easier to win that right at the national level. One challenge was to convince the men of these states to vote in favor of women’s suffrage. Nonetheless, through the 1910s, women won the ability to vote in a succession of states, including Arizona, California, Kansas, Nevada, Oregon, and Montana.