Women Get the Right to Vote.

PositionPICTURING HISTORY - 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution - Brief article

On August 18r 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution--which guaranteed all American women the right to vote--was ratified by the required three-fourths of the 48 states. Tennessee was the 36th state to approve the amendment.

Women had been campaigning for suffrage, or the right to vote, since the mid-1800s. The amendment was first introduced in Congress in 1878, more than 40...

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