Social Changes:
The Eighteenth Amendment:
It gave the manufacture, sell and consumption of alcohol. W.V's WCTU was organized in Mountain Lake, Maryland. The Nineteenth Amendment: It gave women the right to vote. In 1848, a group of women met in Seneca Falls, New York, and started a movement that would forever change the place of people.a Analysis By comparing the effects of the Women's right to vote Movement to the effect of the womens rights Movement we can predict that the economic and social effect were similar but the political effects were different. Economically and socially both movements got women more rights and privileges. For instance, economically they got a bigger variety of jobs and more money. But for social, both movements were able to help society see that women as are the same as men, hardworking individuals. Politically the things were different. The Women's Rights Movement gave women more political rights like property rights. Whereas the womens suffrage movement acheived the Nineteenth Amendment which gave women the right to vote. Even though both movements were mostly striving for the same thing there were many different things between them. |
Constitutional Amendments:
The sixteenth amendments gave an income tax. After the amendment was approved, it was questioned in 13 states, including WV. If the Law was illegal there would not be income tax. The Seventeenth Amendment: It gave us the direct election of U.S. Senators. The Delegates that wrote the U.S. Constitution said that the House of Representatives would be elected just by the people, the Senate would be elected by members of the many state Legislatures. Reformers wanted to give people more control over their government. W.V. Became the 13 state to ratify the amendment. The amendment became the law on April 8, 1913, when Conneticut became he 36th state the approve it. Political Resistance of giving women the right to vote began to go away when the territorial legislature of Wyoming granted women the vote in 1869; it was the first permanent right to vote law in U.S. history. By the 1890s, many states had granted the right to vote. By 1913 there were 12 states, the National Woman's Party, led by Alice Paul, decided to keep the voting power of women in those states to push a suffrage resolution through Congress. The country's placement in World War I had to have the support of women; this provided the suffragists their decisive fire power. When the U.S. entered the war in 1917, a womans right to vote amendment was confirmed in the House of Representatives. By 1919, it had passed both houses of Congress and was soon approved by the necessary 36 states. Finally, the women of America achieved justice when the 19th Amendment became law in August 1920. The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads, "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". |
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