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suffering and sacrifice and toil and not to a partnership of privilege and right?” In
1920, the long struggle ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment
barring states from using sex as a qualification for the suffrage. The United States
became the twenty- seventh country to allow women to vote.
Prohibition
The war gave a powerful impulse to other campaigns that had engaged the
energies of many women in the Progressive era. Ironically, efforts to stamp out
prostitution and protect soldiers from venereal disease led the government to
distribute birth- control information and devices— the very action for which
Margaret Sanger had recently been jailed, as noted in the previous chapter.
Prohibition, a movement inherited from the nineteenth century that had
gained new strength and militancy in Progressive America, finally achieved
national success during the war. Numerous impulses flowed into the renewed
How did the United States mobilize resources and public opinion for the war effort?
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VTNH
MA
CT
NJ
MDDE
VA
NC
SC
GA
FL
MS AL
MO
AR
TX LA
OK
KS
NE
SD
ND
TN
KY
IL IN OH
IA
MI
WI
MN
MT
WY
CO
AZ NM
UT
ID
WA
OR
NV
CA
WV
NY
PA
RI
CANADA
MEXICO Gulf of Mexico
Atlantic
Ocean
Pacific
Ocean
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200
200
400 miles
400 kilometers
Wet counties
Dry counties
PROHIBITION, 1915: COUNTIES AND STATES THAT
BANNED LIQUOR BEFORE THE EIGHTEENTH
AMENDMENT (RATIFIED 1919, REPEALED 1933)
In the early years of the twentieth century, many states and localities in the South and West banned
the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages. (“Wet” counties allowed alcoholic beverages,
“dry” counties banned them.) Prohibition became national with the adoption of the Eighteenth
Amendment in 1919.