Victor 9-2-09
B period
Voting Rights
In 1776, American colonists declared independence from Great Britain. The drafted constitutions established voting rights for certain citizens, not everyone was included. The Articles of confederation did not address voting rights at all. Through the years, amendments to the constitution would extend the voting rights to more citizens. Enabling more people to participate in local and national government.
In 1789, male property owners were mainly the only people allowed to vote. Although some free African Americans could vote, this was very rare. The voting age was 21 and mostly wealthy white males voted. Women were not yet allowed to vote.
In 1870, the fifteenth amendment allowed African American males to vote. Many African American males were held back from voting by the poll taxes that were abolished in the twenty fourth amendment in 1964. Literacy tests were than suspended by the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Women could still not yet vote.
In 1920, the nineteenth amendment granted women voting rights. Brave women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony marched in a women’s suffrage parade in 1919.
Then in 1924, citizenship was extended to Native Americans, which also gave them the right to vote.
The latest change to the voting process was in 1971. The twenty sixth amendment was ratified and lowered the voting age to 18. The reason for this change was the fact that people were wondering why would the government draft 18-year-old kids to war but deny them the right to vote.
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ReplyDeleteIt is well organized and easy to read. I like how it sets out a clear time line.
ReplyDeleteIt'll be nice if you add a concluding sentence that pulls everything together.
i think that this is a very informative overview of how voting has changed over time. It made me wonder how different life would be today if these events had not occurred. One thing for next time would be to condense it into a paragraph form to make it flow better.
ReplyDeleteI agree that you should eliminate the spaces in between the pieces of information to make it have a little more flow. But other than that it's a very informative summary. I had no idea that people used the drafting ages as an argument to let 18 year olds vote. I'm glad you chose to include that piece of info.
ReplyDeleteI liked the way it was put into a timeline sort of format. I also liked how the summary was short and concise. I didn't know that Native Americans didn't even have citizenship until 1924. That's kind of sad, since they were here before us.
ReplyDeleteI liked how you described the reasoning behind introducing the new amendments. I wish you wrote this in longer paragraphs or combining the whole passage
ReplyDeleteThe paragraphs were spaced like this by the page just to clear things up. I did not intentially make these spaces between paragraphs. Thank you for the comments though!
ReplyDeleteThis is definitely quite informative. However it needs more organization, since it sounds like a list.
ReplyDeleteOverall it showed us what we needed to know. However it was too much like a timeline, and it would have been nice if it was not just a list of events.
ReplyDeleteI really like how you organized you blog, it was very clear that in that year this even happened, also it had some detail, but not too much which was kinda like a timeline.
ReplyDeleteIt was a very good synchronized account of different events and how they happened over time. It has a lot of good information but maybe you could put a little more personality into it.
ReplyDeletei really liked the whole timeline setting of this writing it was really helpful and easy to read.
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