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Two rival groups, the National Women Suffrage Association led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Suzen B. Antony, and the American Women Suffrage Association led by Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, and Julia Ward Howe disagreed over strategies. The NAWSA combined both techniques and secured the passage of the 19th Amendment. The organization later became the League of Women Voters. -
While WWI raged, the House voted to pass the 19th amendment but the Senate voted against it. -
The House once again debated the amendment granting women the right to vote and they passed it. -
Wisconsin was the first state legislator to ratify this amendment. -
Texas was the first southern state to vote for women's suffrage. This was a significant step for women because the South had been very resistant towards women's rights. -
The Missouri governor called a special session of the Missouri legislature to consider the issue of women's suffrage and the legislature responded by ratifying the 19th Amendment. -
The anti-sufferage sentiment was strong in Georgia but in 1895 the National American Woman Suffrage Association held a convention in Atlanta. Georgia became the first state to reject ratification. -
The measure passed both houses of the Arkansas legislature less than a week after the defeat of ratification in Georgia. Arkansas would later become the first state to elect a woman to the us Senate. -
The defeat of the ratification in the Alabama legislature came as no surprise because of their strong anti-sufferage sentiment. -
The Tennessee state Senate voted to ratify the amendment but the House of Representatives was a tie. Harry Burn received a letter from his mother before the revote urging him to ¨be a good boy¨ and vote for the amendment. He cast the tie-breaking vote, making Tennessee the 36th state to ratify the amendment. -
The amendment to the constitution required 3/4 of the states to approve the ratification. Tennessee being the 36th state to ratify the amendment it became official to be adopted as a constitutional amendment.