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.

1. By: Molly Walsh Nineteenth Amendment

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?

3. The 19th 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?

5. Women Suffraigists

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

7. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/nineteentham.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution Refrences