The Nineteenth Amendment

"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."

The right of United States citizens to vote will not be denied by anyone because of their sex. 

WOMEN CAN VOTE!!!!!!

Women's suffrage (the right to vote) in the United States was established slowly, over a course of decades locally, and then nationally in 1920. We can thank women's suffragists like Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone for fighting for women to be treated as an equal sex. This illustration is one of my favorites of the women's suffrage movement because it really highlights the stupidity of women being denied the right to vote. Generations before this amendment was passed, women across the United States could give birth to males eligible to vote when they become of age, but were not given that right themselves.

This is a nice infographic that shows a basic timeline for women's suffrage in the United States. Soon it will be a whole century after all American women were given the right to vote, and today a higher percentage of women exercise their right to vote than men.