Question

The 19th Amendment was officially added to the U.S. Constitution in 1920 A. Identify specifically what the 19th Amendment accomplished. B. Explain why the amendment was necessary. C. Identify at least ONE prominent person in U.S. History who was involved in the movement that led to the amendment's ratification.

Answer 1

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Step-by-step explanation:

The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote, a right known as women’s suffrage, and was ratified on August 18, 1920, ending almost a century of protest. In 1848 the movement for women’s rights launched on a national level with the Seneca Falls Convention organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. Following the convention, the demand for the vote became a centerpiece of the women’s rights movement. Stanton and Mott, along with Susan B. Anthony and other activists, raised public awareness and lobbied the government to grant voting rights to women. After a lengthy battle, these groups finally emerged victorious with the passage of the 19th Amendment.

Answer 2

The 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution was proposed by Congress on June 4, 1919, and added to the Constitution on August 18, 1920. It was originally introduced by Senator Aaron A. Sargent in 1878; it was not submitted to the states for ratification until 41 years later.

Until the 1910s, most states had not granted women the right to vote. This 19th Amendment was the endpoint of the women's suffrage movement in the United States, which had struggled to enforce the right to vote both at state and national levels. This superseded a Supreme Court ruling of 1875 (Minor v. Happersett) in which it was unanimously decided that the 14th Amendment did not give women the right to vote.

Decisive for the admission was the approval of the state of Tennessee, which ratified him as the 36th state. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby certified the ratification on August 26, 1920. The Amendment prohibits the federal government and states from prohibiting access to an election based on gender.