NOVEMBER 1California

JANUARY 6, 1920 Kentucky,

Rhode Island

JANUARY 13 Oregon

JANUARY 16 Indiana

JANUARY 27 Wyoming

Your aunt and uncle storm out of family dinner

when you bring up the progress toward ratification.

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DECEMBER 15 Colorado

AUGUST 18, 1920 Tennessee becomes the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment!

FEBRUARY 28 Oklahoma

MARCH 10 West Virginia

MARCH 22 Washington

MARCH 29 REJECTED

Mississippi

JUNE 2REJECTED Delaware

JULY 1REJECTED Louisiana

FEBRUARY 21 New Mexico

FEBRUARY 24REJECTED Maryland

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JUNE 4, 1919 Passes Senate

JUNE 24Pennsylvania

JUNE 25Massachusetts

JUNE 28Texas

JULY 2Iowa

FEBRUARY 7 Nevada

FEBRUARY 9New Jersey

FEBRUARY 11 Idaho

JULY 3Missouri

JULY 24REJECTED Georgia

JANUARY 28 REJECTED

South Carolina

JULY 29 Arkansas

AUGUST 2 Montana, Nebraska SEPTEMBER 8

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Dozens of people gather to hear your pro-suffrage speech in the town square!

GO FORWARD 4 SPACES.

JUNE 16Kansas,

New York Ohio

SEPTEMBER 10 New Hampshire

SEPTEMBER 22 REJECTED Alabama

Your state’s senator gives a speech at an anti-suffrage rally.

GO BACK 3 SPACES.

SEPTEMBER 30Utah

Your local paper publishes an editorial

telling legislators not to vote for suffrage.

GO BACK 3 SPACES.

The ‘Votes for Women’ GameTo play, you’ll need one die and a token for each player.

Start Here

The Road to 36In 1919, after decades of fighting and several failed attempts, Congress passed the 19th Amendment, which established American women’s right to vote. But the battle for suffrage wasn’t over. The legislatures in three-quarters of the states would also have to vote to ratify the amendment before it would officially become part of the Constitution. The race to 36 was on. BY JENNIFER HARLAN AND VERONICA CHAMBERS

This game was originally created for the book “Finish the Fight!: The Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote,” written by the New York Times journalists Veronica Chambers, Jennifer Schuessler, Amisha Padnani, Jennifer Harlan, Sandra E. Garcia and Vivian Wang.

“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”

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FEBRUARY 14 The League of Women Voters

is founded in Chicago. GO FORWARD TWO SPACES

AND CELEBRATE!

If you rolled a 3 or below, you’re in Virginia. LOSE A TUR

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FEBRUARY 12 Arizona approves the amendment, but Virginia

rejects it. If you rolled a 4 or higher, you can stay in Arizona!