How many troops died and how many were injured on the first day .

The first day of the Battle of the Somme, in northern France, was the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army and one of the most infamous days of World War One. On 1 July 1916, the British forces suffered 57,470 casualties, including 19,240 fatalities.

b. the passage of the equal rights amendment  

explanation:

this mean that anything that someone else could do they could do