Reasons For The 19th Amendment

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For The Nineteenth Amendment The Nineteenth Amendment states that male or female should be able to vote in the United States. This amendment was passed on June 4th 1919. The right that lets women vote, the 19th amendment, is also known as woman suffrage. All of the talk about women’s rights started in 1848 at the first movement in Seneca Falls, New York. It 72 years of fighting for the women to finally get want they wanted…. Equality. The reason why I am for this amendment is because I am a woman and I think that everyone should be treated equally whether you have a different religion, race or gender. Everyone is different, nowadays men and women get gender changes or just wear clothes of the opposite gender. It doesn’t matter that

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