1) What reason did Woodrow Wilson give for the United States joining the war against Germany?
2) How did the American troops change the balance of the war?
3) What happened on November 11, 1918?
4) What is an armistice?
5) How many soldiers and civilians had died?
6) What good thing came out of the war in England and America?
7) What is "suffrage"?
8) What had to be changed in the United States so that women could vote?
9) What British law allowed women over thirty years of age to vote?
19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment (1920) to the Constitution of the United States provides men and women with equal voting rights. The amendment states that the right of citizens to vote "shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." Although this equality was implied in the 14th Amendment (1868), most of the states continued to restrict or prohibit women's suffrage.
The women's rights movements, which started as early as the 1830s and became intertwined with the struggle to abolish slavery, resulted in the proposal for the 19th Amendment, introduced in Congress in 1878. This proposed amendment remained a controversial issue for over 40 years, during which the women's rights movement became strongly militant, conducting campaigns and demonstrations for congressional passage of the amendment and then for ratification by the states. This political action, reinforced by the service of women in industry during World War I, resulted in the adoption of the amendment.
Did You Know?
Wyoming, the first state to grant voting rights to women, was also the first state to elect a female governor. Nellie Tayloe Ross (1876-1977) was elected governor of the Equality State (Wyoming's official nickname) in 1924. From 1933 to 1953, she served as the first female director of the U.S. Mint.
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Study for a test on chapters 20 and 21 which will be given in class this Friday.
1) Know the order of events leading into World War I and its development.
2) Know the collective names for the 2 sides which opposed each other.
3) What was the draft?
4) What was worrisome to the British as Germany marched through Belgium?
5) What outraged the world about the sinking of the Lusitania?
6) What provoked the US to enter the war?
If you study all the homework questions for both chapters, you should do well on the test. Remember some other key words too: doughboys, suffragettes, the Communist Party, and the Ten Tragic Days.
Who were Rasputin, Woodrow Wilson, Aledsandr Kerensky, Pancho Villa, Victoriano Huerta? Porfirio Diaz? Francisco Medero? What did they do?
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