How did Wyoming get its state nickname?

Answer 1

Wyoming's official nickname is "The Equality State". The nickname was chosen because Wyoming was the first US state to give women the right to vote and hold public office.

The nickname for Wyoming is The Equality State (the state motto is also Equal Rights). Wyoming was the first state to grant women the right to vote in 1869 (more precisely, women were granted the right to vote so there would be enough voting citizens to meet the population requirement for statehood). This action lead to the nickname The Suffrage State and then later The Equality State.
"the Equality State" Wyoming got its nickname from when it was the first state to extend suffrage to women voters

Answer 2

The name, Wyoming, was used by Representative J. M. Ashley of Ohio who introduced the bill to Congress to provide a temporary government for the territory of Wyoming.

Legh Freeman, publisher of The Frontier Index in Kearny, Nebraska, claimed that it was he who first suggested Wyoming as the name for this portion of the Dakota Territory.

Answer 3

Wyoming is known as "Big Wyoming" or "Big Wonderful Wyoming" or "Wonderful Wyoming". All three are phrases used to promote Wyoming. The "Big" comes from the fact that Wyoming is the 10th larges US state in area.

Answer 4

U.S. Representative James M. Ashley of Ohio proposed the name “Wyoming Territory” in 1865, having been born in Pennsylvania and familiar with the Wyoming Valley. When the Territory of Wyoming was taking the steps towards statehood no other proposed name seemed appropriate, and, since Wyoming was commonly used at the time, it was adopted as the name of the state.

The name Wyoming comes from the Delaware (Lenape) Indian word chwewamink:chw- "big" + eweam- "plains" -enk "place" = "at/on the big plains".

Answer 5

The area was named Wyoming by the US Congress in 1895 when a bill was introduced to set up a "temporary government for the territory of Wyoming".

Answer 6

Wyoming is called the Equality State because it was the first state to extend suffrage to women.

Wyoming is also known as the Cowboy State.

Answer 7

Wyoming got the nickname of The Equality State mainly because Wyoming was the first state to give women equal rights.

Answer 8

Wyoming got its name because it needed a name when it became a US Territory and then a US state.