N.H. women get the vote — Published: 5/14/2021 9:04:04 AM Just over 100 years ago, women celebrated victory in a hard-fought campaign for the vote when the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in August 1920. It marked the culmination of decades of struggle, in New Hampshire and beyond. New Hampshire’s role in the suffrage movement was complex and even contradictory. Despite glimmers of progress, like progressive legislation in the 1870s that acknowledged women’s right to vote in school elections, New Hampshire was generally viewed by Americans during this period as a conservative bulwark, unlikely to embrace such a forward-thinking reform as women’s suffrage.