THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
AMERICAN ORGANIZED CRIME OF THE 1920S
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We elected a new president.
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It was the first election on TV.
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The presidential choices were all good candidates.
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It was the first election that women were allowed to vote in.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The 1920 Presidential election was the first election in American history where women were allowed the right to vote at the federal level. Many historians consider the votes of millions of women to be a contributing factor in the victory for President Warren G. Harding .
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The first state to grant women the right to vote had been Wyoming, in 1869, followed by Utah in 1870, Colorado in 1893, Idaho in 1896, Washington in 1910, California in 1911, Oregon and Arizona in 1912, Montana in 1914, North Dakota, New York, and Rhode Island in 1917, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Michigan in 1918.
Detailed explanation-4: -"Warren G. Harding Elected President of United States in One of Greatest Political Landslides in U.S. History, ” Burlington Weekly Free Press. (Burlington, Vt.), November 4, 1920.
Detailed explanation-5: -Still, some calculations determined that 37% of all registered voters who voted in the 1920 election were women.