Voting Timelines

Voting Rights Act

Voting Facts

Amendements


Amendements
100
White males over the age of 21
Who under the constitution was orignally able to vote?
100
1964
In what year did residents of the District of Columbia first vote for president of the United States?
100
White males over the age of 21
What was the only group that was originally able to vote under the constitution?
100
African American males
Who won the right to vote with the passage of the 15th amendment?
100
The 26th Amendment
What amendment lowered the voting age?
200
techniques, principles, or rules tha enables a student to learn to solve problems and complete tasks independently.
What is learning strategies.
200
It aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States.
What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 do?
200
Dakota
In every state except this one people must register to vote.
200
A strategy designed to teach a different form of writing: persuasive essays.
What is DARE
200
Age 21
What age was the voting age changed from?
300
A graphic organizer designed to help students organize their papers
What is pattern guide
300
250,000
How many African American voters had been registered to vote by the end of 1965?
300
Party Tickets
What paper ballots were originally called?
300
The 19th Amendment
What amendment gave women the right to vote?
300
18
What age was the voting age changed to?
400
A strategy used in the writing process in which peer listen to and make suggests about another student's paper that can improve the quality of their written work.
What is peer editing
400
25,000
How many people marched from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in the March 1965 protest of illegal barriers to voter registration?
400
Alfred J. Gillespie
Who was the voting machine patented by?
400
Mississippi
What was the last state to ratify the amendment?
400
1971
What is the year the 26th amendment was passed?
500
A way to teach students to comprehend reading material by provding them with teacher and peer models of thinking behavior and then allow them to pactice these thinking behaviors with their peers.
What is reciprocal teaching.
500
A self questioning strategy that guides students as they look for important story elements
What is CAPS
500
1900's
When were computer touch screen and directed recording electronic (DRE) voting systems introduced?
500
Wyoming
What state was the first state to grant voting rights to women?
500
Richard Nixon
Who is the president that signed the 26th amendment into law?
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