The+Nineteenth+Amendment+VM



=**//__The Nineteenth Amendment __//**= ====The Nineteenth Amendment was first introduced in Congress in January of 1878. To ratify this amendment, women went to extreme measures; they marched, lobbied, wrote, and practiced civil disobedience for hours on end. Some pursued a strategy of passing suffrage acts in each state--nine western states adopted woman suffrage legislation by 1912. Others challenged male-only voting laws in the courts. After doing all of this for many years, the amendment was finally passed on August 18, 1920... 52 years after it was brought to Congress. 36 states ratified The 19th Amendment, making it an official part to our Constitution. It is said that the first woman to vote after the 19th Amendment was ratified, was Mrs. Marie Ruoff Byrum of Missouri. ====