Which amendment extended voting rights to women?

• A. The First Amendment
• B. The Fifteenth Amendment
• C. The Seventeenth Amendment
• D. The Nineteenth Amendment

Answer: (D)

Extending voting rights to women means prohibiting any law or practice that denies the ballot based on gender. The Nineteenth Amendment does exactly that by guaranteeing that the right to vote cannot be denied because of sex. It was ratified in 1920 after decades of activism by suffragists, and it extended voting access to women across the United States in both federal and state elections.

To place it in context, the Fifteenth Amendment prohibits denying the vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude but does not address gender. The First Amendment protects freedoms of speech, religion, and press, not voting eligibility. The Seventeenth Amendment changed how Senators are elected, directing direct popular elections for them, but it doesn't address who may vote. So the amendment that extended voting rights to women is the one that explicitly bans sex-based voting discrimination.