19th amendment
Female voting rights
The 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1920, guarantees women the right to vote.
It prohibits denying or restricting voting rights on the basis of sex.
The amendment marked the culmination of the women's suffrage movement after decades of activism: The 19th Amendment finally gave my grandmother the right to vote.
- ConstitutionGoverning principles document
- hunger strikesPolitical refusal of food
- picket linesBarriers formed by strikers
- Seneca Falls Convention1848 women's rights assembly
- women's rightsLegal equality for females
Susan B. Anthony · silent sentinels · suffragette movement · gender parity · feminism · World War I · abolitionist movement · Ida B. Wells · Elizabeth Cady Stanton · women's suffrage · right to vote · votes for women · ballot box · ratification process · Progressive Era · 1920 · Voting Rights Act · political representation
19th amendmentdisenfranchisement
Removal of voting rights
voter suppression · poll taxes · literacy tests · coverture · Jim Crow laws
19th amendmentpatriarchy
Male-dominated social order
19th amendmentDred Scott decision
1857 ruling denying Black citizenship
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