Unit 6 - Lesson Voting Rights

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What are 1-2 reason that you think that people might think that only landowners would be responsible enough to be voters?

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The Framers of the Constitution left it up to the ​

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to decide who could vote. In colonial times and during the early years of our country, white men had to prove that they owned ​

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in order to be able to vote. The colonists borrowed this idea from ​

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and the government there.  Over time, voting rights changed in two ways: 1. By changing state ​

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2. By amending the ​

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.

Match

Match the following of the Reconstruction Amendments to the changes it made.

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• Ended Slavery

• Guaranteed the former slaves the rights

• Said black men could not be denied the right to vote because of their skin color

13th Amendment

14th Amendment

15th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

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After the period known as ​

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, states created laws and policies to specifically prevent ​

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from voting in elections.  This led to fewer black ​

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looking out for the needs of the black community and fewer people trying to ​

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the ​

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of members of this community.

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black men

representatives

Reconstruction

rights

protect

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Why do you think some women focused on gaining the right to vote in their state?

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Women were ​

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the right to ​

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in the year ​

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, when the ​

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Amendment was passed. But some states actually allowed women to vote earlier than that. 

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Multiple Choice

Which state became the first to give women the right to vote in 1869?

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• Montana
• Idaho
• Colorado
• Wyoming

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American Indians were given U.S. ​

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in the year ​

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, when the president signed the Indian Citizenship ​

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. But that unfortunately didn’t guarantee them the right to ​

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.

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Native Americans still were not ​

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the right to vote after the passing of the Indian Citizenship Act because they were ​

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against because of the color of their skin and their native cultures. It took ​

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years after the passing of this act for all states to guarantee Native Americans the ​

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to vote.

Multiple Choice

People who lived in Washington D.C., the capital of the United States did not get to vote in presidential elections unit _____ when the 23rd Amendment was passed. It was not until 1978 that they received representation in Congress.

• 1960

• 1961

• 1962

• 1963

Multiple Choice

The Civil Rights Movement brought changes to the voting laws and practices in the U.S. What did the 24th Amendment ban in 1964?

• Voter ID requirements
• Property ownership qualifications
• Literacy tests
• Poll taxes

Multiple Select

Which change below did the Voting Rights Act NOT bring to elections in the U.S.?

• protected the right to vote for all citizens

• forced the states to follow the Constitution

• reinforced the 15th Amendment

• lowered the voting age to 18

Poll

Do you agree with the Supreme Court's decision? Do you think that discrimination has decreased enough in the United States that we no longer need to monitor discrimination in the voting process?

• Agree

• Disagree

• Not Sure

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The ​

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voting age from ​

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to ​

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when the 26th Amendment was passed in 1971.  One of the major reasons this Amendment was created was because of people protesting the ​

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War and the use of the ​

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to supply soldiers for the war.