President Trump's legal team wrapped up their defense yesterday. Here are a few of the highlights:
READING: 243-279 in Edwards
Today's Essential Question: How has the right to vote (suffrage) expanded in the United States?
Learning Standards:
MPA-3.A: Describe the voting rights protections in the Constitution and in legislation.MPA-3.A.1: Legal protections found in federal legislation and the Fifteenth, Seventeenth,
Nineteenth, Twenty-Fourth, and Twenty-Sixth Amendments relate to the expansion of
opportunities for political participation.
Expanding Voting Rights
Questions to Consider:
1. What percentage of the American public could vote in 1790?
2. How has the right to vote expanded over time?
Task #1:
Despite claims of being a democracy, very few people could vote in the early days of the United States. Click this LINK to see how the right to vote has gradually expanded over the past 225 years. If the linked website is blocked, use the power of Google to look up the terms. In your notes, define and explain how each of the following impacted (both positively and negatively) voting rights:
- 15th Amendment
- poll taxes
- literacy tests
- grandfather clause
- 17th Amendment
- 19th Amendment
- white primaries
- 23rd Amendment
- 24th Amendment
- 1965 Voting Rights Act
- 26th Amendment
- Motor Voter Act
Which of the above do you think was the most significant in impacting voting rights and elections? Explain your answer.
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