The Nineteenth Amendment
Passed by Congress on June 4, 1919, the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified on August 18, 1920. It was first introduced in Congress in 1878. By 1912, nine states in the West – Wyoming being the first in 1890 – had already legislated for women to...
Eighteenth Amendment
On January 16, 1919, the Eighteenth Amendment was ratified, after years of campaigning by prohibition proponents. The amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale or distribution of “intoxicating liquors” within the United States. The Volstead Act was...
Bill of Rights Ratified
On this day in 1791, the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution were ratified. The Bill of Rights, as these Amendments came to be known, guaranteed personal liberties with the federal government. The First Amendment alone included the right to...
We the People – Constitution Day, September 17
The Constitutional Convention was initially convened by the Congress of the Confederation in 1787 to revise the Articles of Confederation. Under the Articles, the new government had quickly come to a stalemate between the northern states and those in the south. The...Subscribe by Email
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