Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Questions for Further Study

• 1. Compare and contrast the Fifteenth Amendment and Nineteenth Amendment. How are the language and formats used in both alike, and how are they different?
• 2. What did the Nineteenth Amendment accomplish for the women's rights cause? What did it leave undone?
• 3. Why did activists such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton see woman suffrage as the most important cause of the women's rights movement?
• 4. Why were those engaged in suffragist activities primarily white, middle-class women?
• 5. Why are the arguments against woman suffrage less potent in the twentieth century than they were during the nineteenth century?
• 6. In your opinion, which is more radical: the Declaration of Sentiments (1848) or the Nineteenth Amendment?
• 7. What is the relationship of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Equal Rights Amendment proposed by Alice Paul in 1923? How is that relation similar and different to the one existing between the Fourteenth Amendment and Fifteenth Amendment?