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The year 2020 marks the centennial of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, as well as the 150th anniversary of the first women voting in Utah, which was the first state in the nation where women cast a ballot. [143] An annual celebration of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, known as Women's Equality Day, began on August 26, 1973. [144]
Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibited states and the federal government from denying the right to vote on the basis of sex. Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Nineteenth Amendment .
19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Add languages. Add links. Article; Talk; English. Read; ... additional terms may apply. By using this site, ...
If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that every vote — past, present, and future — matters a lot. Amelia McNeil-Maddox, an 18-year-old voter from Maine, says the coincidence of the ...
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The only amendment to be ratified through this method thus far is the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933. That amendment is also the only one that explicitly repeals an earlier one, the Eighteenth Amendment (ratified in 1919), establishing the prohibition of alcohol. [4] Congress has also enacted statutes governing the constitutional amendment process.
In 1878 a woman suffrage amendment was first introduced in the United States Congress, but it did not pass. [13] [20] In 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified, giving women the right to vote; the first wave of feminism is considered to have ended with that victory. [3] Margaret Higgins Sanger, was one of the first American birth control ...
Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution; Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution