However, I don’t think it was ever actually de jure illegal for women to smoke in the US in the sense that they could be prosecuted for it as a criminal offense. The issue was that it was socially frowned upon as unladylike.
AAA was founded in 1900. Contacting them when you needed help was another story.
Clay McShane’s excellent book on early automobility, Down the Asphalt Path, devotes a chapter to the “Gender Wars” of the period. Though he quotes intemperate statements from legislators and judges, no state appears to have seriously considered only licensing men or forbidding women to drive. Here are the relevant pages, thanks to Google Books.
and don’t forget that one of the first big pushes for good roads was from the League of American Wheelmen, in the 1890s. They were bicyclists.
Gah! I don’t remember details now, but I once researched federal spending on infrastructure. I vaguely remember that the first federal money spent on roads was through a mail delivery act. The money was used to pave rural roads to allow regular mail delivery, I assume to rural post offices. I think it was about 1920.
^In 1912, but only 450 miles were improved under that statute.