The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
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17th amendment.
The 19th amendment was passed giving the right to vote.
Yup! The 19th Amendment stated that you cannot deny any sex to vote. Hence, both women and men could vote. Due to the 15th Amendment, you cannot deny a person to vote due to race, so now all citizens of the United States were eligible to vote after the 19th Amendment.
Women were given the right to vote under the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution. That amendment was ratified on August 18, 1920.
Word got out to the public that she was on a hunger strike and how the people were treating her. It made it look really bad on the president so, he got all of the women out of jail and passed the 19th amendment.