Women's Suffrage: Their Rights and Nothing Less - Lesson Overview - Lesson Plans - For Teachers. Back to Lesson Plans Lesson Overview Women obtained the right to vote nationwide in 1920.
Before 1920, only criminals, the insane, Native Americans, and women were denied the vote. The modern woman's suffrage movement began in the 1840s with the Seneca Falls Convention. How did it happen and why? Bad Romance: Women's Suffrage. Www.lsrhs.net/departments/history/ShenM/Site/20th_classwork,_handouts_files/1920s Advertising Worksheet %26 HW - 20th.pdf. 1920s Newspaper Files - American History 9 with Mr. Konett. Prohibition. Prohibition The 18th Amendment to the Constitution prohibiting the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol in America went into effect on January 16, 1920. The United States was now officially "dry" from coast to coast.
Prohibition was the law of the land.