Despite the fact that the Maine probably exploded because a boiler, yellow journalists automatically assumed that it was the result of Spanish sabotage. Whether that was true or not, they didn't care. They wanted war with Spain
the 19th amendment, passed in 1920
The correct answer is that they granted economic freedoms but not political freedoms. This means that they opened up a bit and became a bit more capitalist, but political freedoms were still forbidden and people would not be able to protest certain things or say certain things out loud or speak against the government and its choices.
The first reconstruction act
