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Stages of Expansion of Voting Rights

Description: 

This is a student project to illustrate stages of expansion of voting rights.

Have your students choose a partner to work with then create a new google present and share it with your partner so you can both be working on it. Then pick one of the five distinct stages of voter expansion listed. Your google present should have pictures and text describing who the key people were who pushed for those expansions and how and when the expansions in that stage occurred.
Stages:
1. 1800-1850 - changes in voter qualifications
2. Post Civil War Changes - 13th-15th Amendments
3. Early 1900's and Women's Right to Vote - 19th Amendment
4. 1960's - Civil Rights
5. 1970's - 26th Amendment"

Learning Targets: 
Understand that voting rights were gained gradually in the US
Sympathize with groups that had to go through great struggles to gain suffrage
Describe the stages of voter expansion
Author: 
rdevries
Content Area: 
Social Studies
Civics
Language: 
English
Resource Type: 
Project
Licensing: 
Creative Commons Licence
Grade: 
9-12
Tags: 
Civics
US Government
Voting
Voter's Rights
Suffrage
Franchise
Women's Suffrage
Civil Rights

Student prerequisite skills and knowledge

Students should be familiar with Google Present and Slides and how to share a document for collaboration.

How is the concept or procedure explained or demonstrated?

This concept is being demonstrated via student created and presented slideshows.
Choose a partner to work with then create a new google present and share it with your partner so you can both be working on it. Then pick one of the five distinct stages of voter expansion listed. Your google present should have pictures and text describing who the key people were who pushed for those expansions and how and when the expansions in that stage occurred.
Stages:
1. 1800-1850 - changes in voter qualifications
2. Post Civil War Changes - 13th-15th Amendments
3. Early 1900's and Women's Right to Vote - 19th Amendment
4. 1960's - Civil Rights
5. 1970's - 26th Amendment"

What concepts or procedures are being explained or demonstrated in this lesson object?

The expansion of voter's rights in America is the concept being taught here.

What was your experience, both successes and challenges, using this lesson object with your students?

Students don't often realize how limited suffrage was in the early history of America, nor how hard groups such as women and freed slaves and African-Americans had to fight to gain suffrage. The project is usually an eye-opener for them.