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“SuffrageSuffrage” doesn’t have to do with “suffer” except for those people who don’t like politics at all; “suffrage” now simply means having the right to vote. Women didn’t gain the right to vote until the 19^th Amendment19th Amendment was passed in 1920 ( 14). Not only did women gain the right to vote, but they also began to do other shocking things, like cut their hair, smoke, and dance the CharlestonCharleston in the age that had become the Jazz AgeJazz Age.