THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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ability to wear short skirts
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ability to vote
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ability to marry other women
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ability to scrub floors
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Detailed explanation-1: -Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. The 19th amendment legally guarantees American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle-victory took decades of agitation and protest.
Detailed explanation-2: -Dutch women won the vote in 1919, and American women on August 26, 1920, with the passage of the 19th Amendment (the Voting Rights Act of 1965 secured voting rights for racial minorities). Irish women won the same voting rights as men in the Irish Free State constitution, 1922.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Government of India Act 1935 extended the vote to include around 6 million women, but even so covered only 2.5% of the women in India. “In the 1937 elections, 10 women were elected from general constituencies, 41 from reserved constituencies, and five were nominated to provincial legislative councils".
Detailed explanation-4: -What happened to the women’s rights movement of the 1920s after it earned the right to vote? It declined because it had achieved its main goal. What can an increase in the power of the Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s be attributed to?