Civics question 102 of 128

When did all women get the right to vote?

3 accepted answers

1920
After World War I
(With the) 19th Amendment

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Background

1920, after World War I, with the Nineteenth Amendment; any of those answers the question. The campaign took more than seventy years from Seneca Falls in 1848 to ratification, and it advanced state by state before it succeeded nationally, since Wyoming and several other western states let women vote decades earlier. The war years helped, as women's work in factories and hospitals made continued exclusion harder to defend. Ratification came down to Tennessee in August 1920 and turned on a single legislator changing his vote. The guarantee proved incomplete in practice as well: Black women in the South faced the same poll taxes and tests used against Black men, and real access waited on the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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It is part of Recent American History and Other Important Historical Information, inside the American History section of the test.

When did all women get the right to vote?

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