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Our Documents - 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Women's Right to Vote (1920) - 0 views

  • The 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote.
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    Overview on the creation of the 19th amendment.
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Featured Document: The 19th Amendment - 0 views

  • women worked tirelessly
  • More public tactics included parades, silent vigils, and hunger strikes. Supporters were heckled, jailed, and sometimes physically abused.
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    19th amendment info.
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19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Women\'s Right to Vote - 0 views

  • Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote.
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    paragraph and picture of an official document
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Roaring Twenties - 0 views

  • The use of machinery increased productivity, while decreasing the demand for manual laborers.
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      Useful information about the advancement of technology. I would use another website to get more information about these main topics
  • Science, medicine and health advanced remarkably during the roaring twenties.
  • An interest developed in nutrition, caloric consumption and physical vitality
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  • The discovery of vitamins and their effects also occurred around the same time.
  • The 1920s era went by such names as the Jazz Age, the Age of Intolerance, and the Age of Wonderful Nonsense. Under any moniker, the era embodied the beginning of modern America
  • Early in the 1920s the U.S. raised tariffs on imported goods, and free immigration came to an end.
  • Amendment 18 to the Constitution (1919) had prohibited the manufacture, transport and sale of intoxicating liquor
  • "Flapper"
  • The roaring twenties ushered in a rich period of American writing, distinguished by the works of such authors
  • A uniquely American music form, whose roots lay in African expression, came to be known as jazz.
  • At the beginning of the roaring twenties, the United States was converting from a wartime to peacetime economy. When weapons for World War I were no longer needed, there was a temporary stall in the economy
  • In this decade, America became the richest nation on Earth and a culture of consumerism was born.
  • Technology
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  • Henry Ford
  • The radio found its way into virtually every home in America
  • The year 1922 introduced the first movie made with sound
  • Charles A. Lindbergh`s pioneering flight across the Atlantic Ocean in the Spirit of St. Louis in 1927 did much to stimulate the young aviation industry.
  • Canned foods, ready-made clothing and household appliances liberated women from much household drudgery
  • New technology in the roaring twenties introduced a number of impacts on the American farm:
  • For the first time in the United States, more people were living in cities than on farms.
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