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Jane Addams opens Hull House
Addams opened Hull House in
Chicago, a settlement house that helped poor immigrants that lived in the slums. -
Jacob Riis exposes conditions in tenements
the book How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York, which exposed the horrible conditions faced by immigrants living in the slums of New York. -
18th Amendment is passed
The 18th
Amendment was ratified on January 16, 1919, banning the manufacture,
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19th Amendment is passed
In 1920, Congress passed the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. This amendment gave all women who were citizens of the United States the right to vote in local, state, and federal elections in the U.S.
