How Did the Battle for the 19th Amendment Work?

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🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Originally, the only Americans granted the right to vote were white male landowners. Learn how white women gained suffrage in this episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/19th-amendment.htm

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0:00.0	13 Days of Halloween Penance. Season 4 of the award-winning horror fiction
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0:11.3	Starring Natalie Morales of Parks and Recreation and Dead To Me.
0:14.9	Please, you've been some kind of mistake. I'm not supposed to be here.
0:18.4	How do you know? I'm innocent.
0:20.3	Are any of us truly innocent?
0:22.3	Premiering October 19th, ending Halloween.
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0:34.3	Welcome to Brain Stuff, a production of iHeartRadio.
0:38.6	Hey, Brain Stuff, Lauren Bulbobom here.
0:41.8	Sometimes it feels like the United States, as a society,
0:44.8	has made major strides in the ongoing fight for gender equality.
0:48.5	And sometimes reality rears its ugly head.
0:51.6	And you realize, well, the country still has a long way to go.
0:55.2	From the truth is, women continue to fight every day for equal rights.
0:58.8	And it wasn't that long ago that the female portion of the population,
1:02.0	which is roughly half of the United States, was prohibited from participating in politics.
1:07.1	Until the 19th Amendment changed that.
1:10.4	Past by Congress on June 4th of 1919 and ratified on August 18th of 1920,
1:16.0	the 19th Amendment finally acknowledged women's right to vote in America.
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