The 19th Amendment: American Women's Suffrage

The 19th Amendment gave American Women the right to vote. American Women were able to accomplish this breakthrough with great difficulty, but after pushing the issue towards congress and taking a stand they finally had their victory even if it took them decades to get the amendment approved. In the early 19th century women suffrage groups took a stand and marched, wrote letters, and practiced proper civil defiance to accomplish this great American change. In 1878 the Amendment was finally introduced in Congress. In 1912 The Progressive Party of Theodore Roosevelt turned into the first political party that encouraged women suffrage, and with his support that is when things began to change for the better. The women who helped push this amendment