Who opposed the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, and why?

There were any number of opponents to the 19th amendment and I do not claim to exhaust the list in this post. For example, little support came from the South. read more

Women, surprisingly, represented another opponent to the passage of the 19th amendment. The National Association Opposed To Women's Suffrage was formed. They were concerned with the special protections and channels of influences that women enjoyed. read more

” In the 1800s the Democratic party was conservative, the Republican party was liberal. read more

The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote, a right known as women’s suffrage, and was ratified on August 18, 1920, ending almost a century of protest. In 1848 the movement for women’s rights launched on a national level with the Seneca Falls Convention organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. read more