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    The 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote in the United States. It was the culmination of over 70 years of activism beginning in 1848 with the Declaration of Sentiments. Key figures like Susan B. Anthony fought for women's suffrage in the courts and Congress for decades, gaining some state-level victories. Finally, in 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the amendment, achieving the threshold for it to pass nationally and guaranteeing women's constitutional right to vote.

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    The 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote in the United States. It was the culmination of over 70 years of activism beginning in 1848 with the Declaration of Sentiments. Key figures like Susan B. Anthony fought for women's suffrage in the courts and Congress for decades, gaining some state-level victories. Finally, in 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the amendment, achieving the threshold for it to pass nationally and guaranteeing women's constitutional right to vote.

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    The 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote in the United States. It was the culmination of over 70 years of activism beginning in 1848 with the Declaration of Sentiments. Key figures like Susan B. Anthony fought for women's suffrage in the courts and Congress for decades, gaining some state-level victories. Finally, in 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the amendment, achieving the threshold for it to pass nationally and guaranteeing women's constitutional right to vote.

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    19th Amendment

    Unique Fact
    Did you know that the first
    woman to vote was Mrs. Marie
    Ruoff Byrum, She casted her
    ballot in the first ward. She then
    became the first woman to vote
    in the state of Missouri and the
    first woman to vote in the United
    States under the 19th, or
    Suffrage, Amendment.

    The first person to vote had a lot to do with this but I’m more concerned for the persons
    who got the 19th amendment into the works. I choose this picture because it gives a nice element
    of happiness, but it proves the cause of the 19th amendment. Anyways without this picture I think
    this would be incomplete and it has to go here. I also choose this picture because it gives the
    feeling that the people who worked for it (women) where in large numbers, this helps with
    proving it.

    The 19th amendment was a time of rights for women, but not just for power or rights but
    they wanted to feel like they were worth more than just a house wife. It all started in the year of
    1848 because of the "Declaration of Sentiments". Soon thereafter in 1852, Susan B. Anthony
    joined the fight, saying that "the right women needed above every other...was the right of
    suffrage”. She was and is considered one of the main points to this argument to it. Later in 1872,
    the women that were fighting for the suffrage were shoving lots of ideas and arguments to the
    Supreme Court so that they would have to listen. They rejected them until one court trial by the
    name of Minor vs. Happersett (1875). “A unanimous Court rejected the argument that either the
    privileges and immunities clause or the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment extended
    the vote to women” (Women's Fight for the Vote, pg1). In 1878 an amendment that is close to
    the one we have today was thought of and was put into every seat of congress for the next 41
    years. Soon after In July 1890, the Territory of Wyoming was put into a state and boom one state
    allowed women the right to vote that state was Wyoming. By 1900, Utah, Colorado, and Idaho
    joined Wyoming in allowing women to vote. In 1912 the Bull Moseparty because the first party
    that would use woman’s suffrage to get votes (under Theodore Roosevelt). Soon thereafter in
    July 1920 it all came down to one state not letting the women vote, it all came down to
    Tennessee. Harry Burns surprised observers by casting the deciding vote for ratification. With a
    letter voted yes for them to vote and bingo they had win the right to vote.

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