How Did The 18th Amendment Change Throughout The 20th Century

During the 20th century, America changed significantly due to twelve amendments. Each amendment had a pivotal impact on society. The 18th Amendment, 19th Amendment and 21st Amendment had crucially affected America in the early 1900 s. These three amendments have heavily influenced American society throughout the years.

The 18th amendment prohibits alcohol after one year of transportation, sales, and the manufacture of the intoxicating liquors which led up to the beverage being prohibited in the United States. The prohibition had such an impact on America that most of the religious churches agreed to have alcohol removed because it would help eliminate all the political corruption, domestic violence, and prostitution. On October 28, 1919 the
This amendment lets women have the right to vote and gives anybody the right to vote, no matter the race or gender. Women have been fighting for years for this amendment to come, or even to have their own rights and to not be treated differently just because of their gender. Some other challenges that women had to face were passing suffrage acts in 9 of the western states. Parades, Strikes, and Silent Vigils were also held during this time; most of the participants were abused and even put in jail when all of this was going on in the 1900’s. Women were going through a lot during these times and for this amendment to be passed helped them participate in more political things and other things that they could not do before. All of this led to women gaining the confidence to lead movements and also women suffrage campaigns.The ratification of the Reconstruction Amendments had brought attention to the issues in the women's suffrage movements after aiming at protecting African American civil rights. The 19th Amendment impacted America a lot by letting women have the rights that they have been fighting for years about. It also impacted how people get to vote, now everybody, no matter what race or gender they are, can