Which amendment granted women the right to vote?

• A. Nineteenth Amendment.
• B. Fifteenth Amendment.
• C. Twenty-Sixth Amendment.
• D. Twenty-First Amendment.

Answer: (A)

The right to vote cannot be denied because of sex. The Nineteenth Amendment, ratified in 1920, declares that the right to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. This put decades of women’s suffrage activism into a single nationwide protection, expanding voting rights to women across all states. Before this amendment, some states allowed women to vote while others did not, so the change created a uniform standard. The other amendments address different issues—one prohibits denying the vote based on race, another lowers the voting age to 18, and another ends Prohibition—so they don’t specifically grant women the right to vote.