Map shows when the states ratified<span> the </span>19th amendment<span> to the U.S. Constitution giving women the right to vote. The </span>approval<span> of thirty-six </span>states<span> was</span>needed to ratify<span> the </span>amendment<span>; Tennessee became the thirty-sixth on August 18, </span>1920<span>, fourteen months after Congress </span>had passed<span> it.</span>
