Nineteenth Amendment

Noun

Meaning

an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920; guarantees that no state can deny the right to vote on the basis of sex

Examples

Charlotte Woodward, alone among all 100 signers, was the only one still alive in 1920 when the Nineteenth Amendment passed. Source: Internet

Jones, A. G., Tomorrow is Another Day: the woman writer in the South, 1859–1936, p. 323. She was nineteen years old when the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified, which gave women the right to vote. Source: Internet

In Fairchild, a citizen sued the Secretary of State and the Attorney General to challenge the procedures by which the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified. Source: Internet

South Carolina was one of several states that initially rejected the Nineteenth Amendment (1920) giving women the right to vote. Source: Internet

The NAWSA then mobilized to obtain support state-by-state, and by 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, giving women the right to vote. Source: Internet

There were several attempts to amend the Constitution, prior to the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment, to grant universal and limited suffrage to women. Source: Internet

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