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List five states that did not allow women the right to vote before the 19th amendment was pass

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I'll list more than five. These are the states in which women were not able to vote until the passage of the 19th Amendment:

  • Vermont
  • New Hampshire
  • Massachusetts
  • Connecticut
  • Pennsylvania
  • New Jersey
  • Delaware
  • Maryland
  • West Virginia
  • Virginia
  • North Carolina
  • South Carolina
  • Georgia
  • Alabama
  • Florida
  • Mississippi
  • Louisiana
  • Arkansas
  • Texas
  • New Mexico
  • Kentucky

See the map I've attached (below), from the National Constitution Center.

The 19th Amendment to the Constitution reads as follows:

  • The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
  • Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

The proposal to add such an amendment was first introduced in Congress in 1878, but Congress did not pass the amendment till 1919 -- after the experience of women taking on greater roles in the country during the First World War. The amendment achieved ratification by a sufficient number of states and was added to the Constitution by August, 1920.

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