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the Nineteenth Amend
Pre-Assessment
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Nineteenth Amendment | an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920; guarantees that no state can deny the right to vote on the basis of sex |
| suffragist | an advocate of the extension of voting rights |
| ratify | approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation |
| abolitionist | a reformer who favors putting an end to slavery |
| Woodrow Wilson | After a policy of neutrality, leads America into war in order to “make the world safe for democracy." |
| Constitution | written at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 and subsequently ratified by the original thirteen states |
| universal suffrage | suffrage for all adults who are not disqualified by the laws of the country |
| Seneca Falls | In 1848 a group of women organized the first Women's Rights Convention in |
| enfranchised | endowed with the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote |
| amendment | a statement that is added to a proposal or document |
| disfranchised | deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote |
| Warren Harding | tea-pot dome scandal, ran on the return to normalcy |
| Calvin Coolidge | played it cool |
| Herbert Hoover | "rugged individualism" work hard and you will succeed |
| Domestic | inside a particular country |
| Foreign | country other than one's own. |
| Marcus Garvey | 'back-to-Africa' movement |
| the Ku Klux Klan | domestic terrorist group primarily targeting African Americans |
| American Civil Liberties Union | founded by Roger Baldwin and others in New York City in 1920 to champion constitutional liberties in the United States. |
| NAACP | renewed sense of fight post WW1- lobbied aggressively for the passage of a federal law that would prohibit lynching. |
| Anti-Defamation League | an advocacy organization to stop, the defamation of the Jewish people; to secure justice and fair treatment |
| Jazz | originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. |
| Eighteenth Amendment | the Volstead act also called prohibition |
| prohibition | banning the “manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors” for beverage purposes in America. |
| recession | an economic downturn |
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