To give equal voting rights to women.
Congress did not enact that amendment or any other. The STATES amended the Constitution to allow female voting.
The proposed amendment was passed by Congress while Woodrow Wilson was President. I don't think Wilson pushed for it much.
This was known as the Women's Suffrage Amendment, and it gave women the right to vote in America.
National women's suffrage, however, did not exist until 1920. During the beginning of the twentieth century, as women's suffrage gained in popularity, suffragists were subject to arrests and many were jailed. Finally, President Woodrow Wilson urged Congress to pass what became, when it was ratified in 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage#United_States
it was the amendment that gave women the right to vote
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The proposed amendment was passed by Congress while Woodrow Wilson was President. I don't think Wilson pushed for it much.
The amendment that Congress passed in 1865 was the Thirteenth amendment and it banned slavery in the United States.
16th amendment
Women who worked for suffrage won the vote by having Congress petitioned. This is what led to the creation of the 19th Amendment.
two thirds
1972
Congress passed the 11th amendment on March 4, 1794.
This was known as the Women's Suffrage Amendment, and it gave women the right to vote in America.
The 19th Amendment is the amendment that guarantees suffrage.
An amendment allows Congress to pass new laws to help define or clarify unclear provisions. An amendment is an addition to what is already printed.
cooper church amendment
Congress feared that the fourteenth amendment would not pass.