Nineteenth Amendment

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Women voting in New York City

Timeline of voting rights

Woman suffrage: In the United States, 1776–1959

The journey to women's voting rights and the Nineteenth Amendment

Is there a difference between a suffragist and a suffragette?

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Women casting their vote in New York City, c. 1920s. At Fifty-sixth and Lexington Avenue, the women voters showed no ignorance or trepidation, but cast their ballots in a businesslike way that bespoke study of suffrage."

Voting in the U.S.A.

Prominent woman's suffrage advocates parade in an open car supporting the ratification of the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote in federal elections. (From left) W.L. Prendergast, W.L. Colt, Doris Stevens, and Alice Paul; c. 1910-15.

Votes for Women

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her daughter, Harriot--from a daguerreotype 1856

Celebrating Elizabeth Cady Stanton at 200

"On the threshold of office--what have we to expect of him?" chromolithograph by Joseph Keppler, September 1881. Print shows the members of the assassinated James A. Garfield's cabinet looking at the new president, Chester Arthur. Chester A. Arthur.

The Surprisingly Disorderly History of the U.S. Presidential Succession Order

The United States Supreme Court building, Washington, D.C.

14 Questions About Government in the United States Answered

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American bison (Bison bison) also known as buffalo or plains buffalo on the prairie, western U.S.

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Andrew Jackson delivering a speech while on his way to Washington, D.C., for his inauguration in 1829. From Harper's Weekly, 1881.

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The original copy of the constitution of the United States; housed in the National Archives, Washington, D.C.

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British soldiers captured by the Germans marching up a hill, June 1940, Dunkirk, France. (World War II, prisoners of war)

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Suffragettes with signs in London, possibly 1912 (based on Monday, Nov. 25). Woman suffrage movement, women's suffrage movement, suffragists, women's rights, feminism.

Quick Quiz: Women In The Voting Booth

Amendments 1-10 to the Constitution of the United States constitute what is known as the Bill of Rights.

Amendments to the U.S. Constitution