19th+Amendment+KW

= = =__**19th Amendment**__=
 * || [[image:19th-Amendement-KW.gif width="240" height="80" caption="19th-Amendement-KW.gif" link="19th Amendment KW"]] || [[image:Jeannette-Rankin-KW.gif width="240" height="80" caption="Jeannette-Rankin-KW.gif" link="Jeannette Rankin KW"]] || [[image:Susan-B-Anthony-KW.gif width="240" height="80" caption="Susan-B-Anthony-KW.gif" link="Susan B Anthony KW"]] || ||  ||   ||
 * At the first fight for women suffrage is traced to the "Declaration of Sentiments" produced at the first woman's rights convention in Seneca Falls, N. Y. in 1848. Four years later, The Woman's Rights Convention in Syracuse in 1852, To join fighting for the wemon. during the dedate they knew that they didn't have much of a chance.** [[image:http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/his1005fall2010/files/2010/12/votes_for_women.jpg width="315" height="474" align="right"]]
 * In 1872, a suffragists brought a series of court challenges //testing// wether wemon are "smart" enought to vote. One challenge grew out of a criminal of Susan B. Anthony for illegally voting in the 1872 election. The first case to make its way to the Supreme Court, was //Minor vs Happersett// (1875). In //Minor//, a unanimous Court rejected the argument and kinda let it go. Amendment extended the vote to women. Following Minor, suffragists turned their attention from the courts to the states and to Congress. **
 * In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive (Bull Moose) Party became the first national political party to have a plank supporting women suffrage. The tide was beginning to turn. **
 * In May, 1919, the necessary two-thirds vote in favor of the women suffrage amendment was finally mustered in Congress, and the proposed amendment was sent to the states for ratification. By July 1920, with a number of primarily southern states adamantly opposed to the amendment, it all came down to Tennessee. It appeared that the amendment might fail by one vote in the Tennessee house, but twenty-four-year-old Harry Burns surprised observers by casting the deciding vote for ratification. At the time of his vote, Burns had in his pocket a letter he had received from his mother urging him, "Don't forget to be a good boy" and "vote for suffrage." Women had finally won the vote. **