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The 18th amendment
The 19th amendment
women's suffrage
Temperance Movement
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When was the 18th amendment established ?
January 16 1919
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when was the 19th amendment established?
August 18 1920
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who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
organizer, speaker, and writer for the 19th century women's rights movement in the United States
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how was this the temperance movement the spark to the 19th amendment?
acohol was blamed for many of society's demerits, among them severe health problems, destitution and crime women getting beaten by drunk husbands and thought they could make a change by making them obtain their rights.
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Who served office when the 18th amendment was repealed by the 21st amendment?
franklin D. Roosevelt
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witch state was the first to grant women rights?
wyoming
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what was the name of the first women's rights convention?
seneca falls
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on October 28 of 1919 what kind of act was passed?
Volstead Act, the popular name for the National Prohibition Act,
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what did the 18th amendment state?
prohibited the making, transporting and , selling of alcohol beverages
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what was the last state to grant women their rights?
Mississippi
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what did the Volstead Act, the popular name for the National Prohibition Act state?
established the legal definition of intoxicating liquors as well as penalties for producing them
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Explain how the 18th amendment effected the economy and the population in general?
Many businesses went underground and broke they had to close down. Men stared to sell alcohol illegally, the crime rates actually went up
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What was life like for women before the 19th amendment?
America’s early history as a nation, women were denied some of the key rights enjoyed by male citizens. For example, married women couldn’t own property and had no legal claim to any money they might earn, and no female had the right to vote. Women were expected to focus on housework and motherhood, not politics.
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what was an issues that made the women's rights movement put on hold?
civil war , 14 amendment establishment
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who was president in 1919 when the National Prohibition Act was established?
Woodrow Wilson
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Did the 18th amendment actually mention something about the consumption of alcohol?
no
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what did the 19th amendment state ?
The U.S. constitution granted American Woman the right to vote. A right known as woman suffrage.
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what did the 14 amendment make African american men and not women?
citizens
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what is the temperance movement?
A temperance movement is a social movement urging personal moderation in the consumption of alcoholic beverages.