Which amendment extended voting rights to women?

• A. The Seventeenth Amendment
• B. The Twenty-Fourth Amendment
• C. The Nineteenth Amendment
• D. The Twenty-Sixth Amendment

Answer: (C)

Women’s suffrage in the United States—granting women the right to vote nationwide—was achieved with the Nineteenth Amendment. Ratified in 1920, it states that the right to vote cannot be denied or abridged on account of sex. This removed the legal barriers that kept women from voting across the country and marked the culmination of a long suffrage movement. The Seventeenth Amendment changes how senators are chosen (direct election of senators). The Twenty-Fourth Amendment bans poll taxes in federal elections. The Twenty-Sixth Amendment lowers the voting age to 18. None of these provisions address extending voting rights to women, so they don’t apply to this question.