Nineteenth Amendment
By: Wyatt Walden
Ladies and gentlemen, there is a new amendment being passed called “The Nineteenth Amendment”. This amendment is giving women the right to vote. This right is also being called “Women Suffrage”. When the U.S. was discovered, its female citizens didn’t have the equal rights like men have, including the right to vote. It wasn’t until now, women’s rights is launching on a national level with a meeting in Seneca Falls, New York, being organized by abolitionists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.
Following the meeting, the need for the vote is becoming a centerpiece of the women’s rights movement. Stanton and Mott, accompanied by Susan B. Anthony and other activists are forming large groups (organizations) that are raising public awareness and are forcing the government to approve voting rights to women.
On May 21, 1919, U.S. Representative James R. Mann a republican from Illinois and a chairman of the Suffrage Committee, is offering the House Resolution to approve the Susan B. Anthony Amendment granting women the right to vote.
The Amendment passes the House 304-89-a full forty two votes above the required two thirds majority. A total of 35 states are approving the Nineteenth Amendment, one state shy of the two-thirds required for Ratification (approval). Southern states are ironically slower at approving the amendment than the northern states. More than 8 million women across the United States are voting on elections for the first time ever. It has taken 60 years for the rest of the 12 states to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment. Mississippi is the last state to do so.
It’s a very important amendment that women are getting the right to vote. They are citizens of the United States, they should have the same rights as men do.
By: Wyatt Walden
Ladies and gentlemen, there is a new amendment being passed called “The Nineteenth Amendment”. This amendment is giving women the right to vote. This right is also being called “Women Suffrage”. When the U.S. was discovered, its female citizens didn’t have the equal rights like men have, including the right to vote. It wasn’t until now, women’s rights is launching on a national level with a meeting in Seneca Falls, New York, being organized by abolitionists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.
Following the meeting, the need for the vote is becoming a centerpiece of the women’s rights movement. Stanton and Mott, accompanied by Susan B. Anthony and other activists are forming large groups (organizations) that are raising public awareness and are forcing the government to approve voting rights to women.
On May 21, 1919, U.S. Representative James R. Mann a republican from Illinois and a chairman of the Suffrage Committee, is offering the House Resolution to approve the Susan B. Anthony Amendment granting women the right to vote.
The Amendment passes the House 304-89-a full forty two votes above the required two thirds majority. A total of 35 states are approving the Nineteenth Amendment, one state shy of the two-thirds required for Ratification (approval). Southern states are ironically slower at approving the amendment than the northern states. More than 8 million women across the United States are voting on elections for the first time ever. It has taken 60 years for the rest of the 12 states to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment. Mississippi is the last state to do so.
It’s a very important amendment that women are getting the right to vote. They are citizens of the United States, they should have the same rights as men do.
Teapot Dome Scandal
A scandal has recently been uncovered involving the Department of the Interior. After Warren G. Harding transferred control of the navy oil reserves to the Department of the Interior, Albert B. Fall illegally leased the land containing the oil to a private oil company. The land the oil is in is named Teapot Dome and thus the scandal has been dubbed the Teapot Dome Scandal.
This Scandal is one many that have recently come to light. The Harding administration has come under fire for many different acts of corruption. These including taking bribes, stealing valuable medical equipment and selling it and more.
On April 7th 1922 Secretary Fall secretly granted the right to drill on the Navy reserve in Teapot Dome to Harry F. Sinclair. He granted the right to drill on the Elk hills and Buena Vista Hills reserves in california to Edward L. Doheny of the Pan American Petroleum Company. All participants in the Scandal has been found to benefit largely from the leases.
A senate investigation was proposed by Thomas J Walsh. It has been discovered that Secretary Falls had received over 400,000 dollars in “loans” from two oil companies. When Congress was informed of the scandal they have ordered Harding to cancel the leases. The Supreme court has declared the leases fraudulent and decided that Harding's transfer of transfer of authority to Secretary Fall.
This is just another example of how power can corrupt. It also shows that giving the government too much power and letting it go unchecked can have dire consequences. The government should be run by the people and for the people and not by business and for business.
The Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties were an age of dramatic social and political change. For the first time, more Americans lived in cities than on farms. The nation’s total wealth was more than doubled between 1920 and 1929, this economic growth swept so many Americans into a wealthy but unfamiliar consumer society.
People from all around bought the same types of goods, listened to the same music, did the same dances, and even used the same slang! Many Americans were so uncomfortable with the new, urban, mass culture, that for most people in the United States, the 1920s brought more conflict than celebration. However, for a small group of young people in the nation’s big cities, the 1920s were roaring after all. The 18th Amendment to the Constitution, was confirmed in 1919, and had banned the manufacture and sale of liquors, and at 12 A.M.
On January 16, 1920, the federal Volstead Act closed every nightclub, bar, and saloon in the United States. From then on, it was illegal to sell any intoxicating beverages with more than 0.5% alcohol. This drove the liquor trade underground now, people went to nominally illegal speakeasies instead of ordinary bars where it was controlled by bootleggers, racketeers and other organized crime figures such as the Chicago gangster Al Capone, which he had lots of gunman and half of the police force on his payroll.
The Roaring Twenties were an age of dramatic social and political change. For the first time, more Americans lived in cities than on farms. The nation’s total wealth was more than doubled between 1920 and 1929, this economic growth swept so many Americans into a wealthy but unfamiliar consumer society.
People from all around bought the same types of goods, listened to the same music, did the same dances, and even used the same slang! Many Americans were so uncomfortable with the new, urban, mass culture, that for most people in the United States, the 1920s brought more conflict than celebration. However, for a small group of young people in the nation’s big cities, the 1920s were roaring after all. The 18th Amendment to the Constitution, was confirmed in 1919, and had banned the manufacture and sale of liquors, and at 12 A.M.
On January 16, 1920, the federal Volstead Act closed every nightclub, bar, and saloon in the United States. From then on, it was illegal to sell any intoxicating beverages with more than 0.5% alcohol. This drove the liquor trade underground now, people went to nominally illegal speakeasies instead of ordinary bars where it was controlled by bootleggers, racketeers and other organized crime figures such as the Chicago gangster Al Capone, which he had lots of gunman and half of the police force on his payroll.