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Introduction. Ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to voteâa right known as woman suffrage. At the time the U.S. was founded, its female citizens did not share all of the same rights as men, including the right to vote.
U.S. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby certifies the 19th Amendment on August 26, 1920, giving women the Constitutional right to vote. First proposed in Congress in 1878, the amendment did not pass the House and Senate until 1919. 1918: The House of Representatives passes a resolution for a woman suffrage amendment. 2  The resolution is defeated in the Senate. 3  1919: The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which gives women the right to vote, is adopted by a joint resolution in Congress.