Frontier

The 19th Amendment is a frontier in history because suffrage was unfair between men and women; men had the right to vote and women did not have the right to vote. The 19th Amendment allows American women to vote, which was a tremendous struggle for women in the 18-1900s (“19th Amendment to the…”). Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the first Women’s Rights Convention together in Seneca Falls in 1848 (“19th Amendment”). “The campaign for women’s suffrage was long, difficult, and sometimes dramatic; yet ratification did not ensure full enfranchisement” (“19th Amendment to the…”). The 19th Amendment impacted many American women, but not all women had the right to vote (“19th Amendment to the…”). “Decades of struggle to include African Americans and other minority women in the promise of voting rights remained” (“19th Amendment to the…”). This legislation influenced other minorities to fight for women’s suffrage and opened the door for women in politics (“19th Amendment to the…”). The importance of the 19th Amendment is that it allowed women to have a voice through voting (“19th Amendment to the…”).