19th Amendment

(Pictured above: The fight for women’s suffrage is pictured above through protests being held in front of the White House in Washington, D.C.)

            The 19^th Amendment to the United States Constitution guaranteed the women of America something that they had been fighting for and pushing to get for over 100 years, the right to vote.  For a long time, women were unable to vote because the right of citizens to vote was on account of sex.  This took place in not only federal elections but in state election as well.  This amendment, ratified in 1920, gave Congress the power to enforce this law by appropriate legislation.  Not only did women in America have this problem, but women all over the world did as well.  Women’s suffrage, female’s right to vote, was gained in Finland, Iceland,, Sweden, and in Australian colonies within the late 19^th century.  Protests and interest groups today still fight to improve wages for women all around the untied states.  Women’s rights advocacy groups may even be at a larger number today if it weren’t for the 19^th amendment.  Fighting for women’s suffrage began even before the Civil War as votes for white men were the only one’s that counted.  The 19^th amendment helped spur a fight for women’s rights that continues to go on today.  It is believed that there will be no end in this fight until equality is reached for women all around the world.  The 19^th amendment was just the start for women’s civil rights.     

History.com Staff. "The Fight for Women’s Suffrage." History.com. A&E Television Networks, 2009. Web. 18 Nov. 2016. <http://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/the-fight-for-womens-suffrage>.