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KF5JRV > TODAY 04.06.19 13:42l 7 Lines 2383 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing women theright to vote, is passed by Congress and sent to the states forratification.The women’s suffrage movement was founded in the mid-19th century bywomen who had become politically active through their work in theabolitionist and temperance movements. In July 1848, 240 womansuffragists, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, met inSeneca Falls, New York, to assert the right of women to vote. Femaleenfranchisement was still largely opposed by most Americans, and thedistraction of the North-South conflict and subsequent Civil Warprecluded further discussion. During the Reconstruction Era, the 15thAmendment was adopted, granting African American men the right to vote,but the Republican-dominated Congress failed to expand its progressiveradicalism into the sphere of gender.In 1869, the National Woman Suffrage Association, led by Susan B.Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was formed to push for an amendmentto the U.S. Constitution. Another organization, the American WomanSuffrage Association, led by Lucy Stone, was organized in the same yearto work through the state legislatures. In 1890, these two societieswere united as the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Thatyear, Wyoming became the first state to grant women the right to vote.By the beginning of the 20th century, the role of women in Americansociety was changing drastically; women were working more, receiving abetter education, bearing fewer children, and several states hadauthorized female suffrage. In 1913, the National Woman’s partyorganized the voting power of these enfranchised women to electcongressional representatives who supported woman suffrage, and by 1916both the Democratic and Republican parties openly endorsed femaleenfranchisement. In 1919, the 19th Amendment, which stated that “therights of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied orabridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex,ö passedboth houses of Congress and was sent to the states for ratification. OnAugust 18, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify theamendment, giving it the two-thirds majority of state ratificationnecessary to make it the law of the land. Eight days later, the 19thAmendment took effect.
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