The Nineteenth Amendment granted women the right to vote by prohibiting the United States and individual states from denying citizens the right to vote based on sex. It was drafted in 1878 by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and was first introduced to Congress. After decades of campaigning by women's suffrage movements, it was passed by Congress in 1919 and ratified on August 18, 1920.
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Freedom and women
Reconstruction led to the reinstatement of the southern states to the association, and reformulating the position African Americans in the United States. The process had begun before the civil war came to an end. Abraham Lincoln the president of the United States, started the unification of the states in 1863. The southerners took an oath of loyalty to show that they were to be loyal to the union and could take positions and establish governments. Lincolns' liberation command made the United States bring slavery to an end. However, this command only freed slaves in the areas of liberation the others left in bondage. Freedom, gender, race, and political economic revolutionized in the reconstruction period. It led to the emergence of suffrage movements and amendment of the constitution, granting all citizens the right to vote.
In 1920, the US constitution got approved after the nineteenth constitutional amendment. It also granted the congress the power to exercise legislation where appropriate. The right to vote depicted the highest level of the women movement, which was led by the national American woman enfranchisement association. The women's, enfranchisement movement had its origin in 1848. Three hundred thousand male and female activists had gathered during the convention to discuss the issue of women and come up with new strategies on how the political and social rights of the women could be achieved. However, the movement initially wasn't really into the suffrage of women at its early stages. The first suffrage women movement began in 1869. Susan and Elizabeth Cady found the National Woman enfranchisement Association. “Lucy Stone, Julia Ward, and Henry Blackwell” were the founding fathers of the American Woman enfranchisement Association (Williamson, 2019). During the fifteenth amend these two associations became rivals. This was because, in the fifteenth amendment, men were granted the right to poll, and the National Woman enfranchisement supported it.
American woman suffrage association did not help the amendment, because suffrage for women was not included. Notably, the two movements despite having differences, they were later merged into one massive demonstration, the National American Woman enfranchisement Association in 1890. In the 1870s, the women enfranchisement activists began to endeavor to vote and filing case when they were denied the chance to vote. This brought a lot of consciousness to the movement especially after the apprehension of Susan Anthony when she tried to vote in ...
2. It is a constitutional amendment that would provide "The right of citizens to vote and shall not be abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
4. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Santon drafted the amendment and first introduced it in 1878 In 1919, Congress submitted the amendment to the states for ratification. August 18th, 1920, it was ratified. How did the 19th Amendment come about?
6. In July 1890 Wyoming, which allowed women to vote, was admitted as a state. Wyoming was ne of the first states with women suffrage. By 1900, Utah, Colorado, and Idaho also allowed women to vote. In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Party became the first national political party to support women suffrage. A Chain Reaction