What Was The Significance Of The 19th Amendment

The nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920, giving all women the right to vote. This amendment was the result of over two generations of women’s protests and hard work. The nineteenth Amendment was officially ratified on August 18, 1920, but it was introduced to Congress 42 years earlier, in 1878. This amendment guaranteed that all women who were citizens of the United States could not be denied or restricted from voting based on their gender. Many thought that this right was implied in the fourteenth Amendment (which called for equal rights and protection under laws for all U.S. citizens), but when the Supreme Court ruled that the fourteenth Amendment did not grant women the right to vote, in a court case in 1875, women realized that they