The 19th Amendment

THE NINETEENTH AMENDMENT

• Women's Suffrage
• Gender can't determine one's right to vote

WOMEN'S RIGHT TO VOTE

• Women did not originally share all the same rights as men
• One of those rights was including the right to vote
• 19th Amendment guarantees American women the vote

THE NINETEENTH AMENDMENT

• Women argued 14th amendment gave suffrage
• Seneca Falls, NY 1848
• Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Drafted and first introduced in 1878

ORIGINS OF 19TH AMENDMEMT

• Submitted to the states for ratification in 1919
• Wyoming, 1890
• 1912, Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Party

WOMEN GOT THE VOTE

• May, 1919- 2/3 vote in Congress
• July, 1920- Tennessee had deciding vote
• Majority of states opposed were southern states
• August 26, 1920- Certification by U.S. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby
• November 2, 1920- 8 million women in U.S. voted for first time

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MINOR VS HAPPERSETT

• 1874
• Virginia and Francis Minor
• "Denied one of the privileges and immunities of citizenship"

MINOR VS HAPPERSETT

• Argued for protection of suffrage under 14th Amendment
• Virginia Minor was barred from vote on basis of Missouri law in 1972

MINOR VS HAPPERSETT

• Supreme Court declared in favor of Happersett
• Privileges & immunities of citizenship aren't defined by Constitution
• Put an end in attempt to win rights for women in court decree
• New focus on voting laws in individual states

WORK CITED

• http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/document.html?doc=13&title.raw=19th...
• http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/minorvhapp.html
• http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/384487/Minor-v-Happersett
• http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/nineteentham.htm