Amendment, Nineteenth

Amendment to the US Constitution, ratified on 18 August 1920, which gave women the vote in federal and state elections.

An amendment that guaranteed women the right to vote was first introduced in Congress in 1878. The contributions of women during World War I increased support for a women's suffrage amendment, and the Senate finally passed it in 1919. The Nineteenth Amendment states: ‘The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.’