'New And Destructive Gun'

The territory of Wyoming passes the first women 's suffrage law. The following year, women begin serving on juries in the territory.

Next in the development of machine guns came the Maxim, the machine gun with only one barrel. This gun with a belt of bullets that fed in one side and the empty belt came out the other side. It used the explosion from the bullets firing to load the next bullet. With the use of different

This photo captures American women voting for the first time after the 19th Amendment was passed on August 26, 1920. Women were always thought of less than man and were expected to stay home and take care of the children. They lacked important rights such as voting, being able to own property, and having legal claim to any money they might earn. But after about seventy years women proved that they, like men, deserve all the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. Gaining the right to vote was a historical step for women in America that was achieved through hard work and perseverance.

The Amendment was passed August 26, 1920. Their fight to vote started sometime in the 1820s. In the 1820s american women were titled to be a perfect housewife which included cooking for the men and children, cleaning, looking after children, and should be submissive towards the other gender. They were not allowed to have paying jobs because men thought women could not handle that things except for taking care of their family. In 1851 Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton work together to fight for women’s rights. A lot of people were against what they were trying to accomplish and still are. They worked together in making a newspaper to promote the idea of women’s rights. Around 1869 the National Women’s Suffrage Association was formed

In 1848, a French army officer named Claude Minié invented a cone-shaped lead bullet with a diameter smaller than that of the rifle barrel. Soldiers could load these “Minié balls” quickly, without the aid of ramrods or mallets. Rifles with Minié bullets were more accurate, and therefore deadlier, than muskets were, which forced infantries to change the way they fought: Even troops who were far from the line of fire had to protect themselves by building elaborate trenches and other fortifications.

Hiram Maxim created Machine Gun and in 1883, he created the first multi bullet-firing weapon. This lead to wider development of automatic weapons which were later used in war. (Note: the 1862 Gatling gun which was ran by hand cranking.)

The 15th amendment was passed by Congress on February 26, 1869, and ratified on February 3, 1870. This amendment gave African American men the right to vote. Although they were granted this right, many people were unhappy with this, so the Poll tax was created, requiring citizens to pay a fee to register to vote. These fees kept many poor African Americans from voting. The 19th amendment was passed by Congress on June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920. This amendment gave women the right to vote. Both amendments granted women and African American men rights that they never once had previously had. The ability to vote and participate in country decision making was a huge step forward for both groups of people regarding their equality. Women also began to fight for other things. For example, Margaret Sanger was an American birth control activist, and wanted to give women the right to take birth control if they chose to prevent unwanted pregnancies. Both woman and African Americans would continue fighting for their rights during other eras, such as the Roaring

The 19th Amendment allows both men and women to vote. It states, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on accounts of sex”. Another major Amendment is the 13th Amendment. This is the outlaw of slavery. It states, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except for punishment of crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction”.

3. 14th Amendment, 1868 Born in the United States 15th Amendment, 1870 No race discrimination on voting 19th Amendment, 1920 Women's Suffrage 23rd Amendment, 1961 Allowing the District of Columbia to vote 26th Amendment, 1971 18 years and older can

America Fact 6: The 19th Amendment was passed by Congress on June 4, 1919 and the Women's Suffrage Clause, was ratified on August 18, 1920. Women's suffrage gave the right of a woman to vote

right to vote when the 19th amendment got ratified in the year 1920. Before the 19th amendment, only 4 states gave women the right to vote. The western states gave women the right to vote so that more people could come to their states. The women suffrage was run by strong women. Two of the women were Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady. The women got the right to vote because they have been fighting for their rights since 1775, women were striking for their rights at their job to so that they can be equal as men, the women’s right convention that opened the new possibility for women, and the 4 states that gave women rights before the 19th amendment.

A pistol, at times, could have decided whether a soldier would live or die in combat depending on the situation. Another factor which made the pistol a very important weapon was the fact that the pistol could be reloaded much faster than a rifle (Slayton 12).

Women’s suffrage, or the crusade to achieve the equal right for women to vote and run for political office, was a difficult fight that took activists in the United States almost 100 years to win. On August 26, 1920 the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was ratified, declaring all women be empowered with the same rights and responsibilities of citizenship as men, and on Election Day, 1920 millions of women exercised their right to vote for the very first time.

Nineteenth Amendment- The constitutional amendment adopted in 1920 that guarantees women the right to vote.

Women’s Rights was one of the major social changes that began to gain attention in the media and to peak in active activity during the twentieth century. Women’s rights had been in the making since the eighteenth century. Some of the earliest documented words for Women’s rights appeared in a letter to John Adams by his wife Abigail Adams. During the making of the United States constitution (from the eighteenth to nineteenth century), she wrote to her husband and asked him to “remember the ladies”. The first state to permit women to vote in the United States (before the nineteenth amendment was drafted) was New Jersey. However, there were restrictions upon who was eligible to vote. Some of these restrictions included