THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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Women became citizens.
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African Americans became citizens.
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Women were granted the right to vote.
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African Americans were granted the right to vote.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The 19th Amendment makes it illegal to deny the right to vote to any citizen based on their sex, which effectively granted women the right to vote. It was first introduced to Congress in 1878 and was finally certified 42 years later in 1920.
Detailed explanation-2: -The woman’s suffrage movement is important because it resulted in passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which finally allowed women the right to vote.
Detailed explanation-3: -On August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment was certified by U.S. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby, and women finally achieved the long-sought right to vote throughout the United States. On November 2 of that same year, more than 8 million women across the U.S. voted in elections for the first time.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex, in effect recognizing the right of women to a vote.
Detailed explanation-5: -However, certain states, such as Wyoming, New Jersey, and Utah, granted women the right to vote decades before the 19th Amendment was ratified. In some instances, women were allowed to vote in certain elections; for example, in 1838 widows in Kentucky who owned property could vote for school trustees.