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June 2 – Eight mail bombs are sent to prominent figures as part of the 1919 United States anarchist bombings. June 4 – Women's rights: The United States Congress approves the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which would guarantee suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.
1919 – President Wilson has a massive stroke. First Lady Edith Wilson takes over in a "silent coup". 1919 – United States Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations; 1919 – 18th Amendment, establishing Prohibition; 1919 – Black Sox Scandal during that year's World Series, with the fallout lasting for decades
June 2 – 1919 United States anarchist bombings: Eight mail bombs are sent to prominent figures. June 4 – Women's rights: The United States Congress approves the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which would guarantee suffrage to women, and sends it to the states for ratification.
The first Red Scare was a period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of far-left movements, including Bolshevism and anarchism, due to real and imagined events; real events included the Russian 1917 October Revolution, German Revolution of 1918–1919, and anarchist bombings in the U.S.
1919: The Year That Changed America is a 2019 non-fiction children's book by American author Martin W. Sandler.The book details various events from 1919, including the Great Molasses Flood in Boston, "which led to building code, municipal oversight, and corporate liability precedents", the Nineteenth Amendment's passing, racial tensions, the Red Scare, changing labor conditions, and the ...
Mass meeting of Cleveland steel workers in Brookside Park during strike, October 1, 1919. The United States strike wave of 1919 was a succession of extensive labor strikes following World War I that unfolded across various American industries, involving more than four million American workers.
The New York race riots of 1919 developed with increasing racial tension and violent incidents in New York City. These riots were a part of the Red Summer, [1] [circular reference] a series of violent terrorist attacks on black communities in many cities in the United States during the summer and early autumn of 1919. The New York race riots ...
1919 in the United States by state or territory (51 C) 1919 events in the United States by month (11 C) 1919 disestablishments in the United States (24 C, 11 P)