Scenarios about '19th Amendment'
The constitutional amendment ratified in 1920 that granted women the right to vote in the United States after decades of suffrage activism. This milestone in the women's rights movement ended gender-based voting restrictions that had excluded women from full political participation since the nation's founding. In alternate history scenarios, modifications to the timing or implementation of the 19th Amendment often explore how different paths to women's suffrage might have altered American political and social development.
What If Women's Suffrage Was Delayed Longer?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the women's suffrage movement in the United States failed to secure voting rights in 1920, delaying gender equality in democratic participation for decades.