How the 19th Amendment Began.
During the 19th amendment tried to give all American women the right to vote. To make this happen victory took decades of agitation and protest. Beginning in the mid-19th century, several of woman practice civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered a huge change in the Constitution. The small amount of early supporters lived to see final victory in 1920's.
Beginning in the 1800s, women organized, petitioned, and picketed to win the right to vote, but it took them decades to accomplish the rights to vote in 1878, when the amendment was first introduced in Congress, and August 18, 1920, when it was ratified, champions of voting rights for women but working to achieving their goal varied. Militant suffragists used tactics such as parades, silent vigils, and hunger strikes. On May 21, 1919, the House of Representatives passed the amendment, within 2 weeks later, the Senate followed. When Tennessee won the 36th state to ratify the amendment on August 18, 1920, the amendment passed its final struggle of obtaining the right of three-fourths of the states.
Beginning in the 1800s, women organized, petitioned, and picketed to win the right to vote, but it took them decades to accomplish the rights to vote in 1878, when the amendment was first introduced in Congress, and August 18, 1920, when it was ratified, champions of voting rights for women but working to achieving their goal varied. Militant suffragists used tactics such as parades, silent vigils, and hunger strikes. On May 21, 1919, the House of Representatives passed the amendment, within 2 weeks later, the Senate followed. When Tennessee won the 36th state to ratify the amendment on August 18, 1920, the amendment passed its final struggle of obtaining the right of three-fourths of the states.
The United States postage stamp at the bottom has 3 major women in it. The first is Elizabeth Stanton is a lawyer and, was born in Johnstown, New York, 12th November, 1815. She studied law under with her father, who later became a New York Supreme Court judge. During this period she became a strong member of women's rights. Second is Carrie C. Catt, she spent her childhood in Charles City, Iowa and graduated from Iowa State College she became one of the first women to be appointed superintendent of schools. And last Lucretia Mott, Lucretia was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on 3rd January, 1793. It was not till 1848 that Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organised the Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls. Stanton's resolution that it was "the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves the sacred right to the elective franchise" was passed, and this became the focus of the group's campaign over the next few years.