Expanding Voting Rights

For decades most states have voted for landowners of white men called free people. Gradually, the franchise and voting rights were expanded to include non-landowners, then African Americans, and then women, and finally, 18 years old. This process has twists and turns; this is far from the straight line of voting rights that continues to expand. It involves the federal government playing a greater role in deciding who constitutes a voter or voter. This series follows a complex process

Lessons 2 to 5 are based on the NBC Learn archive report. Some are the main sources of information - news articles of the times students are exploring and some historical literature. These important materials help students understand how students think about their current events. Other NBC materials are secondary sources - the news report reviews some important events in the history of voting rights and links them to newer events. These materials will help students understand how historic events echo and affect their lives. All the videos can be found here

After the first Republican Party Division 1 confirmed whether the constitution insisted on the voting rights, they made the exploration of the first significant expansion of the voting rights.

Section 2 The obstacles facing African-Americans voting and crackdown will start with the revision of the constitutional amendment. This limits the ability of the state to make their claim for the first time. However, the right to vote for African Americans will begin within the next 100 years. In Lesson 2 you will learn about obstacles that prevent African Americans from exercising their right to vote in many states and the fight to eliminate it.

Lesson 3 The voting right bill after 1965 focuses on the voting rights bill in 1965. Students explore why they need it, then look for recent attempts to end their protection.

Section 4 The women's elections return to the past, and students are exploring how women acquire voting rights. This is also a historic moment at the national level.

At the end of Lesson 5, at the 26th amendment students can explore the Constitutional amendment and give the 18-year-old children the right to vote.

This course is the second lesson of the "Expanding Voting Rights" series. The overall goal of the series is to allow students to explore the country's complex voting history. First, as more and more Americans have acquired voting rights over and over again, the Federal Government plays a role in securing these rights. It is getting bigger and bigger. Students explored why African Americans, especially those in the south, could not exercise this right, why they were modified. Students will examine key teaching materials from the "NBC Learning" archive to better understand the pattern and impact of racial discrimination in the 1960s. They also examined secondary sources from "NBC Learning" to gain a broader understanding of the voting struggle, which is an important part of the modern civil rights movement.

Several changes were made to the issue of voting rights during and after the American Revolutionary War. The United States drafted their specific constitution, some expanded the voting rights, others did not. The diversity of US experience in expanding or limiting eligibility for voting includes not only women, but also free African Americans, American Indians, and foreigners. In 1756, Lydia Chapin Taft voted on behalf of her husband in the lobby of the town meeting held in Massachusetts. However, in the Massachusetts Constitution on March 2, 1780, women's voting is not allowed and it is no longer possible to do so. In the 18th century, only male votes were held in five states, New York State, Georgia State, South Carolina State, Pennsylvania State and Massachusetts State. The words "male" and "son" are used in each constitution. , In the case of the "New Jersey state constitution" (Garbaye, "opaque and transparent")