1. How Women Got the Vote
... fed, clothed and alive, called her Mother Bickerdyke. She tended to more than 2,000 wounded men in the Union Army. During Christmas time to keep the soldiers spirits up, she found time to bake and serve bread, peach pies and cookies for all the soldiers. Even after the war was over, Bickerdyke raised funds for orphaned children and ran a veterans home. There were many more ... " set in motion, in 1918, the House of Representatives scheduled the vote for the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. With 2/3 of the necessary majority the amendment passed through the House of Representatives. The Presid...
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