19th Amendment

Introduction

• What did the Nineteenth Amendment say, and who were some of the key figures who made it a reality?
• What was the Seneca Falls Convention?  What was the Declaration of Sentiments?  And what did this key moment suggest about the roots of the women’s rights movement in the mid-1800s?
• What were the constitutional arguments advanced by those supporting the women’s vote and those advanced by those opposing it?
• How was the Nineteenth Amendment story an example of federalism in action?
• What did the Nineteenth Amendment settle when it was ratified, and what work remained in the decades ahead?