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Why was the presidential election of 1920 the first in which women throughout the nation voted for a presidential candidate?
AThe Eighteenth Amendment was ratified then
BThe Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in time
CEach state passed its own law that year
DCongress ordered the states to allow it
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. The Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in time
1. 1. During the war Wilson championed a federal amendment to permit women to vote.
2. 2. Congress submitted the Nineteenth Amendment to the states in 1919.
3. 3. It was ratified in time to permit women to vote the following year, which was 1920.
4. 4. The Eighteenth Amendment concerned alcoholic drink, so it is a different amendment altogether.
_Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section ISOLATIONISM FOLLOWS PEACE_
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