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4 February 1919: Belarus — Women were granted the right to vote and stand in elections. [7] [8]10 February 1919: U.S. Senate defeats women's suffrage amendment. [9]10 February 1919: Paris, France — The Inter-Allied Women's Conference, also known as the Suffragist Conference of the Allied Countries and the United States, convened to compile a list of women's issues to present to the ...
1919: The National American Woman Suffrage Association holds its convention in St. Louis, where Carrie Chapman Catt rallies to transform the association into the League of Women Voters. [ 3 ] 1919 : In January, the National Women's Party lights and guards a "Watchfire for Freedom."
The amendment was the culmination of a decades-long movement for women's suffrage in the United States, at both the state and national levels, and was part of the worldwide movement towards women's suffrage and part of the wider women's rights movement. The first women's suffrage amendment was introduced in Congress in 1878.
The demand for women's suffrage began to gather strength in the 1840s, emerging from the broader movement for women's rights. In 1848, the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention, passed a resolution in favor of women's suffrage despite opposition from some of its organizers, who believed the idea was too extreme. [3]
In February 1919, a women's suffrage law to vote for presidential electors passed the state and would go out for a voter referendum on September 13, 1920. [118] In November of 1919, a special legislative session was called and Maine ratified the Nineteenth Amendment on November 5. [119]
Women were granted suffrage in 1919 but elections were abolished in 1929. [149] Women were again granted suffrage in 1964, [150] [151] [152] and have been able to vote in Afghanistan since 1965 (except during Taliban rule, 1996–2001, when no elections were held). [153]
During a second vote in the Senate on February 10, 1919, the women's suffrage amendment lost by one vote. [42] However, during the 1918 election, suffrage supporters were elected to Congress through targeted efforts by leaders in the movement.
The women's suffrage movement in the U.S. state of Minnesota began the mid-1800s and culminated in the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment by the state's legislature in 1919. The amendment, which prevents states from denying women the right to vote, was officially adopted and added to the Constitution of the United States in 1920.