✦ History

Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

August 18, 1920 · Washington, D.C.

Amendment that bars the US and the states from denying the vote on account of sex. Tennessee's ratification completed it, after more than 70 years of the suffrage movement.

On the map Contemporaries

Key people

Susan B. Anthony participant, Suffrage leader; the amendment was nicknamed after her Alice Paul participant, Led the National Woman's Party campaign Carrie Chapman Catt participant, President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association

Participants

Before and after

Followed from
Seneca Falls Convention July 19–20, 1848

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