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  2. Women's suffrage in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Feminism. Women's suffrage, or the right of women to vote, was established in the United States over the course of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, first in various states and localities, then nationally in 1920 with the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution. [2] The demand for women's suffrage began to ...

  3. Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    All states that were successful in securing full voting rights for women before 1920 were located in the West. [13] [25] A federal amendment intended to grant women the right to vote was introduced in the U.S. Senate for the first time in 1878 by Aaron A. Sargent, a Senator from California who was a women's suffrage advocate. [26]

  4. Women's suffrage - Wikipedia

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    Women won the right to vote in municipal elections on March 20, 1930. Women's suffrage was achieved for parliamentary elections on December 5, 1934, through a constitutional amendment. Turkish women, who participated in parliamentary elections for the first time on February 8, 1935, obtained 18 seats.

  5. When did women gain the right to vote? The history of the ...

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    19 th Amendment. Women in the U.S. won the right to vote for the first time in 1920 when Congress ratified the 19th Amendment. The fight for women’s suffrage stretched back to at least 1848 ...

  6. Timeline: The women's rights movement in the US - AOL

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    1920 – The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, ensuring the right of women to vote. 1923 – The first version of an Equal Rights Amendment is introduced. It says, "Men and ...

  7. Timeline of women's suffrage in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The focus turns to working at the state level. Wyoming renewed general women's suffrage, becoming the first state to allow women to vote. [6][3][8] 1890: A suffrage campaign loses in South Dakota. [6] 1893: After a campaign led by Carrie Chapman Catt, Colorado men vote for women's suffrage.

  8. Voting rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1869–1920: Some states allow women to vote. Wyoming was the first state to give women voting rights in 1869. 1870: The Fifteenth Amendment prevents state governments and the federal government from denying the right to vote on grounds of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". Disfranchisement after Reconstruction era began soon after.

  9. History of women in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Amendment passed nationally and Georgia women gained the right to vote in 1920. [183] However, black women, as well as black men, continued to face substantial barriers designed to prevent black Americans from voting until the passage of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 enforced their constitutional rights.