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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.
The California State Senate unanimously voted in favor of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and the California State Assembly approved it with a vote of 73 for and 2 against, becoming the 18th state to ratify it. [1] [2] The United Mine Workers of America under John L. Lewis voted to strike in the United States. [3]
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.
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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By the end of 1919, 22 had ratified the amendment. [53] In other states support proved more difficult to secure. Much of the opposition to the amendment came from Southern Democrats; only two former Confederate states (Texas and Arkansas) and three border states voted for ratification, [42] with Kentucky and West Virginia not doing so until 1920.
In 1920, the manufacture, sale, import and export of alcohol was prohibited by the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Possession of liquor, and drinking it, was never illegal before. The overall level of alcohol consumption did go down, however, state and local governments avoided aggressive enforcement.
1920. Catherine Wentworth with replica Liberty Bell outside Independence Hall September 1920 for 19th Amendment celebration. September 25: The Justice Bell is finally rung at a celebration of women winning the right to vote where Katharine Wentworth is the first to ring the bell. [29] November 2: Pennsylvania women vote for the first time. [33]