The 16th amendment provided for an income tax. After the amendment was ratified, its legality was questioned in thirteen states, including West Virginia. There have been many challenges to the amendment because of the question of the legality of the ratification process which made it a law. If the law were declared illegal, there would no longer be an income tax.
The seventeEnth ammendment provided for the direct election of United States Senators. The delegates that wrote the United States Constitution provided that the House of Representatives would be elected directly by the people, but the Senate would be elected by members of the various state legislators.
ThE eighteenth ammendment (void) prohibited the manufacture, sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages. The Women's Christian Temperance Union was organized to promote the prohibition of the use of alcoholic beverages.
WV fun facts: West Virginia became the 21st state to ratify the 18th amendment on January 9,1919.West Virginias WCTU was organized in Mountain Lake, Maryland.
The nineteenth ammendment gave women the right to vote. The delegates at Seneca Falls discussed a number of issues, including (property rights, divorce laws, voting rights). But, in 1848, a group of women met in Seneca Falls, New York, and started a movement that would forever change "the place of a woman". the women WHO FOUGHT to get the right to vote were called suffragettes.
Wv fun facts:Some say West Virginia had two suffrage movements.The first suffrage movement dates from the formation of the West Virginia Equal Suffrage Association in Grafton in 1895. The second suffrage movement dates from around 1905.
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