In Kansas they campaigned for referenda that would enfranchise African Americans and women. It agreed to let northern states decide individually whether to enfranchise blacks. However, reform in Ireland stalled over the more radical proposals to enfranchise Irish Catholics. Despite their efforts, these amendments did not enfranchise women. California voted to enfranchise women in 1911. New York is the first Eastern state to fully enfranchise women. In later centuries the reigning monarch decided which settlements to enfranchise. It was the first GCC country to enfranchise its population. New Zealand was the first self-governing nation to enfranchise women, starting from the . Peru was the next-to-last country in Latin America to fully enfranchise women. In 1962, New Mexico became the last state to enfranchise Native Americans. Leaders of the women's movement were dismayed that it would not also enfranchise women.