B- the aridity hypothesis
He changed his vote because of a letter from his mother asking him to "be a good boy" and vote for the amendment.
<u>Explanation</u>:
- Harry Thomas Burn was the youngest member of the state legislature (Tennessee General Assembly )
- He is remembered for the step taken to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment during his very first legislature.
- Even though he really intended to vote for the amendment, he was pressurized by party leaders and other misleading telegrams. He began to side with the Anti-suffragists.
- He received a letter from his mother which made him to change his mind and vote for the amendment.
- The result of the vote was a tie of 48-48, when the house speaker called for a vote on the "merits", but his vote broke the tie in favor of ratifying the amendment.
Minnesota provided a large number of units in the American Civil War proportionate to its small population of approximately 170,000 in 1861-1865, with some 26,717 state volunteers being recorded, although a number of those are individuals who reenlisted in other units.
