To: Cautious_Optimist who wrote (88551 ) 5/29/2012 11:36:36 PM From: longnshort Respond to clean air and water, FDR and 40 years of dems in charge polluted the hell out of the usa. who created the EPA.Wyoming (1869) [69] and Utah (1870), although Utah women were disenfranchised by provisions of the federal Edmunds–Tucker Act enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1887. Utah women would dispose of polygamy . It was only after Utah women exercised their suffrage rights in favor of polygamy that the U.S. Congress disenfranchised Utah women. [70] By the end of the 19th century, Idaho , Colorado , Utah , and Wyoming had enfranchised women after effort by the suffrage associations at the state level.Alice Paul became the first "cause" to picket outside the White House. Paul and Lucy Burns led a series of protests against the Wilson Administration in Washington. Wilson ignored the protests for six months, but on June 20, 1917, as a Russian delegation drove up to the White House, suffragettes unfurled a banner which stated; "We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote. President Wilson is the chief opponent of their national enfranchisement". [71] Another banner on August 14, 1917, referred to "Kaiser Wilson" and compared the plight of the German people with that of American women. With this manner of protest, the women were subject to arrests and many were jailed. [72] On October 17, Alice Paul was sentenced to seven months and on October 30 began a hunger strike, but after a few days prison authorities began to force feed her. [71] After years of opposition, Wilson changed his position in 1918 to advocate women's suffrage as a war measure. [73] Nineteenth Amendment , which prohibited state or federal sex-based restrictions on voting. [74]
