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By Diamond Grade 5

**The Story Of A Day for Women: How They Got The Vote**

In the early 1900’s women wanted to prove that they were much more than housewives. They wanted to be involved with politics, to have the right to vote, and to pick the next president. The suffragettes played a big role in the movement for women’s right to vote. In the first decade of the 1900’s women couldn’t vote. Many people thought that women were supposed to get married, have children and take care of the home. They believed that if women got involved in politics it would be the end of family life. To help women get the right to vote there were suffragettes. Suffragettes were women who helped the normal, everyday women’s voices to be heard. They planned marches and hunger strikes, and they and other women protested in front of the White House. Many women were arrested and jailed. Some were placed in solitary confinement.

Harriet Batch, one of the suffragettes, had a winning plan up her sleeve. On the day before President–elect Woodrow Wilson was to be inaugurated in 1913, she planned a parade. The plan worked. In 1918 the House of Representatives approved an amendment that said women could vote. In 1919 the Senate passed the amendment and sent it to the states for approval. On August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the thirty sixth state to approve the amendment. On August 26, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment was declared to be law. The fight was over. Women were able to vote.

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