Which constitutional amendment eventually granted women the right to vote nationwide?
Show answer and explanation
Correct answer: The Nineteenth Amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment prohibited denying the right to vote on the basis of sex. It was ratified in 1920 after decades of organizing by women's suffrage activists.
Keep practicing
More Progressive Reforms questions
- Which organization was a major national group working for women's suffrage during the Progressive Era?
- Which suffrage leader helped form the National Woman's Party and used more confrontational tactics such as picketing the White House?
- Which argument did many Progressive Era suffragists use to support voting rights for women?
- What was muckraking journalism?
- Which muckraker exposed abuses by the Standard Oil Company?
- Which book by Upton Sinclair exposed conditions in the meatpacking industry?