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However, a suffrage amendment did not pass the House of Representatives until May 21, 1919, which was quickly followed by the Senate, on June 4, 1919. It was then submitted to the states for ratification, achieving the requisite 36 ratifications to secure adoption, and thereby went into effect, on August 18, 1920.
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The only amendment to be ratified through this method thus far is the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933. That amendment is also the only one that explicitly repeals an earlier one, the Eighteenth Amendment (ratified in 1919), establishing the prohibition of alcohol. [4] Congress has also enacted statutes governing the constitutional amendment process.
On August 26, eight days after ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, Colby issued the official proclamation that it had become a part of the Constitution of the United States, guaranteeing women the right to vote. [8] In December 1920, Colby embarked on the battleship Florida for an official goodwill cruise to South America. [9]
The women's suffrage movement in the U.S. state of Minnesota began the mid-1800s and culminated in the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment by the state's legislature in 1919. The amendment, which prevents states from denying women the right to vote, was officially adopted and added to the Constitution of the United States in 1920.
Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War, May 26, 1918 – April 1, 1920 The American Expeditionary Force Siberia, August 15, 1918 – April 1, 1920; The American Expeditionary Force North Russia, September 4, 1918 – August 5, 1919; The Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution takes effect, January 29, 1919
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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.