# Canonical recap data for Woman Suffrage Granted in U.S. (1920)
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slug: nineteenth-amendment
canonicalUrl: "https://recap.at/1920/nineteenth-amendment"
title: Woman Suffrage Granted in U.S.
subtitle: The ratification of the 19th Amendment granted American women the right to vote, concluding a 70-year suffrage campaign and doubling the eligible electorate overnight.
recapType: global_event
eventStatus: concluded
startDate: 1920-01-01
datePrecision: year
year: 1920
decade: 1920
country:
name: United States
slug: united-states
summaryShort: "Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Historically, women rarely had the right to vote, even in ostensibly democratic systems of government. The 19th century saw many movements advocating \"universal [male] suffrage\", most notably in Europe and North America; following this, movements for women's "
summaryLong: Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Historically, women rarely had the right to vote, even in ostensibly democratic systems of government. The 19th century saw many movements advocating "universal [male] suffrage", most notably in Europe and North America; following this, movements for women's suffrage became prominent, and by the mid and late 19th century, women's suffrage was accomplished in Australasia, then Europe, and then the Americas. By the middle of the 20th century, women's suffrage had been established as a norm of democratic governance. Extended political campaigns by women and their male supporters played a central role in changing public attitudes, altering norms, and achieving legislation or constitutional amendments for women's suffrage.
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heroImageCredit: Wikipedia · "Women's suffrage"
importance: 89
sourceConfidence: 75
keyFacts: []
timeline: []
sources:
- url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_suffrage"
  title: Women's suffrage
  provider: Wikipedia
related: []
categories:
- election
- protest
metaDescription: Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Historically, women rarely had the right to vote, even in ostensibly democratic systems of governme
wikidataQid: Q205204
archiveSnapshots:
- url: "https://web.archive.org/web/20260608182017/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage"
  capturedAt: 2026-06-08
  label: Women's suffrage
  originalUrl: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_suffrage"
taxonomy:
domain: social_movement
eventTypes:
- activist_campaign
canonicalClasses:
- mobilization
- transformation
impactRadius: national
velocity: gradual
predictability: emergent
intentionality: coordinated
domainCoupling: multi_domain
