Women suffrage also known as woman suffrage or woman right to vote is the right of woman to vote and to stand for electoral office. Limited voting rights were gained by women in Sweden, Finland and some western U.S. states in the late 19th century. The West Virginia woman suffrage movement involved the work of a dedicated group of women who committed their personal resources to the cause of winning the vote for themselves and the other women of their state and nation. From the end of the nineteenth century until the victory of the movement in 1920, these women organized, spoke, raised money, held office, corresponded with state and national political leaders, and carried out the strategy of the national suffrage associations. Facing repeated defeats, they, and the many men who also joined their ranks, worked constantly against the odds in a state plagued by poor transportation, limited economic development, ties to the Old South and conservative religious beliefs. This come to prohibited Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933