HISTORY
THE WORLD BETWEEN THE WARS
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African Americans
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Women
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Immigrants
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American Indians
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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: -First in the world Although a number of other territories enfranchised women before 1893, New Zealand can justly claim to be the first self-governing country to grant the vote to all adult women.
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: -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. This timeline features key moments on the Senate’s long road to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
Detailed explanation-5: -When it was approved, on 15 December 1917, Sarojini Naidu led a deputation of 14 leading women from throughout India to present the demand to include women’s suffrage in the new Franchise Bill under development by the Government of India.