What did the Nineteenth Amendment do?
Q: What did the Nineteenth Amendment do?
A: The Nineteenth Amendment granted American women the right to vote.
Q: When was it ratified?
A: It was ratified on August 18, 1920.
Q: What preceded the Nineteenth Amendment?
A: The Nineteenth Amendment marked the end of a long struggle for women in the United States that began in the mid-nineteenth century known as women's suffrage.
Q: How did this movement challenge existing views of women?
A: This movement challenged the concept that when the Constitution was written, it was accepted that a woman did not have a separate legal identity from her husband. Women's suffrage sought to change this view and give women equal rights under law.
Q: Who introduced the amendment in Congress?
A: Senator Aaron A. Sargent introduced it in 1878.
Q: How many times had it been unsuccessfully introduced before its approval by Congress in 1919?
A: It had been unsuccessfully introduced every year for 40 years before its approval by Congress in 1919.
Q:What decision by the Supreme Court did it overturn?
A:The Nineteenth Amendment overturned an earlier decision by the United States Supreme Court in Minor v. Happersett which held that the right to vote guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to all citizens of the United States did not apply to women.
