Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution recognized that the right to vote could not be denied to a citizen on the basis of gender?
A)20th
B)21st
C)18th
D)19th

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The Nineteenth Amendment, ratified in 1920, recognized the right of women of legal voting age to vote in all local, state and federal elections. The voting rights of American women, much like slavery, varied by state in the earliest days of the country, before and after independence. The women's suffrage movement gained momentum throughout the latter half of the 19th century with a rallying moment at Seneca Falls in 1848, moderate abstinence from the cause during the Civil War, and a resumption of activism in 1865 when the war ended and the voting rights of black men were recognized.

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