19th Amendment

By Cristian.Cervantes12
  • 1878 BCE

    The fight for the 19th Amendment

    The fight for the 19th Amendment
    Women organized, petitioned, and picketed to try and get the rights to vote. It was only introduced to congress in 1878. It was ratified on August 18, 1920. It took women more than 100 years to get the rights to vote.

  • Suffrage Groups

    The beginning of the 1830's, women started to protest about there rights to voting. Later on they would boycott or protest against this. 100 or so years later they would finally have the 19th amendment passed and they would have the right to vote.

  • Seneca Falls Convention

    A convention was held in New York to try and have more people join the fight for the votes of women. This convention was started by a woman named Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Luertia Mott. 300 hundred people attend the convention and this encouraged people to stand with the women fighting for their right to vote.

  • NWSA

    NWSA
    In the 1878, a group called NWSA was created to help the movement of the 19th amendment. Later on it would join another group called AWSA to created NAWSA.

  • Minor v. Happersett

    Minor v. Happersett
    When Virginia Minor was refused the option to vote, she took decided to take this problem to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ruled that she could not vote because she was a woman an it does not say women can vote at the time.

  • NAWSA

    NAWSA
    Two association, AWSA and NWSA, decided to join together to become NAWSA. They supported women's suffrage. Within the next 6 years, Colorado, Idaho, and Utah ratified the amendment.

  • State Created Laws

    State Created Laws
    States started to create laws for women to vote in the 1910's. Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Oregon, and Washington were the states that allowed women to vote even before the amendment was ratified.

  • Alice Paul formed NWP

    Alice formed this group to help advance the 19th Amendment and to help women.

  • 200 NWP arrested while picketing the White House

    200 NWP supporters were arrested while picketing, some of those people even went on a hunger strike and endured forced feeding.

  • Amendment is ratified

    Amendment is ratified
    Tenseness is the final state to ratify this idea, which allowed woman to final vote.