Nineteenth Amendment

Examples of Nineteenth Amendment in the following topics:

• Gender Inequality in Politics

  • Women's suffrage, the movement to achieve the female vote, was won gradually at state and local levels during the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
  • In 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, which provided:
  • To appreciate the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment, one must look back to the mid-nineteenth century.
  • The Nineteenth Amendment was passed the year following the Treaty of Paris, which ended World War I.

• The Political Participation of Women

  • Women's suffrage in the United States was achieved gradually, at state and local levels, during the 19th century and early 20th century, culminating in 1920 with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
  • NOW was one important group that fought for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).

• Women as a Minority

  • In the United States, women were treated as second-class citizens and not given the right to vote until 1920, when the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S.

• Religion in the U.S.

  • Due to the First Amendment, which grants freedom of religion, there is a diversity of religious beliefs and practices in the U.S.
  • A wide variety of religious choices have been available to the U.S. population due to the First Amendment of the Constitution, which allows freedom of religion.
  • The First Amendment specifically denies the Federal Government the power to enact any law respecting either an establishment of religion or prohibiting its free exercise.

• Preindustrial Societies: The Birth of Inequality

  • Pre-industrial societies are societies that existed before the Industrial Revolution, which took place in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
  • Feudalism was a set of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the nineteenth and fifteenth centuries.

• The Transfer of Authority

  • This was specified in the Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution.

• Economic Sociology

  • Sociology came of age in the late nineteenth century, at the same time as capitalism and modernity were taking root.

• Lenski's Sociological Evolution Approach

  • Most nineteenth century and some twentieth century approaches aimed to provide models for the evolution of humankind as a whole, argue that different societies are at different stages of social development.

• Alienation

  • The term "alienation" has a long and storied history within sociology, most famously with Karl Marx's use of the phrase in the mid-nineteenth century to describe the distancing of a worker from the product of his labors.
  • Social alienation was famously described by French sociologist Émile Durkheim in the late nineteenth century with his concept of anomie.

• Early Thinkers and Comte

  • Other thinkers of the nineteenth century (for example, Herbert Spencer) held similar goals.
  • Since the nineteenth century, the idea of positivism has been extensively elaborated.