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The year 2020 marks the centennial of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, as well as the 150th anniversary of the first women voting in Utah, which was the first state in the nation where women cast a ballot. [143] An annual celebration of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, known as Women's Equality Day, began on August 26, 1973. [144]
1913 – 16th Amendment, establishing an income tax; 1913 – End of the Philippine–American War; 1913 – The Armory Show opens in New York City introducing Modern art both American and European to the American public. 1913 – 17th Amendment, establishing the direct election of U.S. Senators. 1913 – Underwood Tariff
Date: 21 January 2009: Source: Vector map from Blank US Map.svg by Theshibboleth.; Information from US Suffrage Map 1920.png (from the article "Out of Subjection Into Freedom" by Marjorie Shuler, published in The Woman Citizen, p.360, September 4, 1920 and available online via the Digital Library of Tennessee and the Tennessee Virtual Archive, and in The Right to Vote by Alexander Keyssar ...
United States: The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex. It was adopted on August 18, 1920.
Women's suffrage finally came to South Carolina through the Nineteenth Amendment after the amendment was passed by Congress in 1919. South Carolina accepted the implications of the Nineteenth Amendment, but at the same time passed a law excluding women from jury duty within the state. South Carolina finally ratified the Nineteenth Amendment in ...
If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that every vote — past, present, and future — matters a lot. Amelia McNeil-Maddox, an 18-year-old voter from Maine, says the coincidence of the ...
However, the history of this legislation points to critical weaknesses in its framework. An alternative proposal that was considered at the time but that failed to pass, the Child Labor Amendment ...
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