<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex . It was adopted on August 18, 1920 . Until the 1910s, most states did not give women the right to vote . The amendment was the culmination of the women's suffrage movement in the United States, which fought at both state and national levels to achieve the vote . It effectively overruled Minor v. Happersett, in which a unanimous Supreme Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment did not give women the right to vote . </P> <P> The Nineteenth Amendment was originally introduced in Congress in 1878 by Senator Aaron A. Sargent . Forty - one years later, in 1919, Congress submitted it to the states for ratification . It was ratified by three - fourths of the states a year later, with Tennessee's ratification being the last needed to add the amendment to the Constitution . In Leser v. Garnett (1922), the Supreme Court rejected claims that the amendment was unconstitutionally adopted . </P>

Who did the nineteenth amendment give the right to vote