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Nineteenth Amendment

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Nineteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution

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  Before the Nineteenth Amendment, only fifteen states allowed women to vote in all elections, leaving millions without a voice.

  Nineteenth Amendment = constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote
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  Three states were first to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment. Specifically, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin ratified it on June 10, 1919.
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  A year after the Nineteenth Amendment gave women all across the country the right to vote in 1920, Congress passed the Sheppard-Towner Act, a landmark program for public health.†  (source) Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky, 2009