THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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Twentieth Amendment
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Nineteenth Amendment
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Eighteenth Amendment
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twenty-first Amendment
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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.
Detailed explanation-2: -The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Detailed explanation-3: -The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote, a right known as women’s suffrage, and was ratified on August 18, 1920, ending almost a century of protest.
Detailed explanation-4: -The 18th Amendment, ratified just a year earlier than the 19th, prohibited the sale of alcohol in the United States. The 20th Amendment in 1933 repealed it. The 19th Amendment was also a part of a global effort among western nations to grant women’s suffrage amid the turmoil of World War I.
Detailed explanation-5: -Approved by the Senate on June 4, 1919, and ratified in August 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment marked one stage in women’s long fight for political equality.