Congress handed the nineteenth Modification, granting the correct to vote to ladies, on this present day in historical past, June 4, 1919 — sending the textual content of the modification to the states for ratification. 

The modification learn, “The suitable of residents of america to vote shall not be denied or abridged by america or by any State on account of intercourse.” 

The Senate voted 56-25 in favor of the modification, mentioned the U.S. Senate’s webpage for the centennial of ladies’s suffrage. 

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Two weeks earlier, on Could 21, the Home of Representatives had voted 304-89 to approve the textual content of the modification, notes the Library of Congress web site. 

The modification was then signed by Thomas Marshall, President Woodrow Wilson’s vp. 

The nineteenth Modification, which forbade discrimination in voting legal guidelines on the premise of intercourse, was handed by Congress and moved to the states for ratification on this present day in historical past, June 4, 1919.  (Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Studying Eagle by way of Getty Pictures)

Many have been against ladies having the correct to vote. 

“Artists created political cartoons that mocked suffragists. Spiritual leaders spoke out towards ladies’s political activism from the pulpit. Articles attacked ladies who took half in public life,” says web site Crusadeforthevote.org.  

Within the 1860s, opponents of girl suffrage started to arrange regionally. 

“Massachusetts was dwelling to main suffrage advocates, and it was additionally one of many first states with an organized anti-suffrage group,” that web site additionally says.

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Following congressional approval of ladies’s proper to vote, the modification needed to be ratified by 36 states earlier than it could possibly be added to the Structure. 

On the time, there have been solely 48 states in america. 

Suffragettes carry a banner asserting that “ladies have full suffrage in Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Idaho” on the Ladies of all Nations Parade in New York on Could 3, 1916. (Paul Thompson/Topical Press Company/Getty Pictures)

The primary three states to ratify the nineteenth Modification moved shortly. 

On June 10, lower than per week after the nineteenth Modification was handed by Congress, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin had all ratified it, mentioned the Nationwide Parks Service web site.

Technically, Illinois was the primary state to vote for ratification, with Wisconsin second, says the Nationwide Parks Service, however the vote in Illinois needed to be redone the next week after an administrative error was found. 

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Afterward June tenth, Michigan’s state legislature voted unanimously to ratify the nineteenth Modification, bringing the overall to a few states. 

Six days later, on June 16, Kansas, Ohio and New York grew to become the subsequent states to ratify the nineteenth Modification. 

A voter fills out her poll in early voting. Congress voted in favor of the textual content of the nineteenth Modification, granting ladies the correct to vote, on this present day in historical past in June 1919.  (GEORGE FREY/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)

By the top of July 1919, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Texas, Iowa, Missouri and Arkansas voted to ratify the modification, placing the overall states at 12. 

By this level, just one state — Georgia — had voted down ratification. 

Georgia would vote finally to ratify the nineteenth Modification in 1970 as a formality, says the Nationwide Parks Service web site.

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Because the calendar turned to 1920, 22 of the 36 states wanted to ratify the modification had voted to take action. 

By the top of January, 5 extra states had joined their ranks, though South Carolina had “voted overwhelmingly” to reject the modification. 

On March 22, 1920, Washington grew to become the thirty fifth state to ratify the modification, says the NPS. 

Virginia, Maryland, Mississippi, Delaware and Louisiana all voted towards ratification throughout this time. 

Congress handed the nineteenth Modification on this present day in historical past, June 4, 1919, kicking off the hassle to get 36 states to ratify. The modification gave ladies the correct to vote. (iStock)

Lastly, on August 18, 1920, Tennessee ratified the modification, placing the overall at 36. 

About one week later, on August 26, 1920, the ratification was licensed by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby and the nineteenth Modification was added to the U.S. Structure, says the Nationwide Archives web site.

Regardless of the ratification of the nineteenth Modification, ladies nonetheless confronted challenges of their quest to really vote. 

Ultimately, every U.S. state would ratify the nineteenth Modification. 

In 4 states — Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi and South Carolina — ladies largely couldn’t vote within the 1920 election because the ratification occurred after voter registration deadlines, notes the American Bar Affiliation. 

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Ultimately, every U.S. state would ratify the nineteenth Modification. 

The final to take action was Mississippi, who ratified the modification in 1984.

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“I don’t imagine that ladies are higher than males,” distinguished suffragist Jane Addams mentioned, in keeping with Crusadeforthevote.org. 

“We’ve not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislature, nor accomplished many unholy issues that males have accomplished; however then we should do not forget that we have now not had the possibility.”