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Standard 15, element D Describe the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment, establishing Prohibition, and the Nineteenth Amendment, establishing women’s suffrage.

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Standard 15, element D

Describe the passage of the Eighteenth

Amendment, establishing Prohibition, and the

Nineteenth Amendment, establishing women’s

suffrage.

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Temperance/Prohibition Movement

• alcohol to blame for society’s ills

• First, they tried to just limit availability, then eliminate all together

• Carrie Nation: she would enter saloons, smash bottles of liquor with a hatchet

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18th Amendment• ratified in 1919, took effect in

1920• prohibited the making,

selling, or transporting of any alcoholic beverage in the U.S.

• FAILURE• The Amendment was

extremely difficult to enforce so that by 1933, the 21st Amendment was passed repealing the 18th Amendment

Why do you think the 18 Amendment

was so difficult to enforce?

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Women’s Suffrage Movement

• Susan B. Anthony (most recognized leader of the movement)

• with help from Elizabeth Cady Stanton, established the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)– other notable leaders: Carrie Chapman

Catt, Alice Paul, Lucy Burns

• Seneca Falls Convention (1848): stated “all men & women are created equal”

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Nineteenth Amendment (1920)Women’s Suffrage: The right to vote

Women’s suffrage movement groups originally tied their cause to that of African-American

suffrage