The Right to Vote

1. The Right to Vote

2. House Keeping • Any permission slips? • Presidential research paper • Rubric is online along with info sheet • Groups • Mitt Romney • President Obama • Rick Santorum • Newt Gingrich • Ron Paul • Use the sign up sheet • We will be in the library on this Wed.

3. Learning Objective: • After taking notes on the lecture SWBAT identify the 6 major actions that have lead to a larger electorate as demonstrated by successful identification of images.

4. Key Vocabulary • Suffrage and Franchise? • What do they mean and are they the same? Anybody? • They mean the right to vote • Electorate – Bueller? Bueller? Find an answer with a partner. • The potential voting population

5. A Tale of Two Trends • Numero Uno • The reduction of restrictions on who can vote based on… What factors? With a partner come up with at least one. • Property ownership • Religious beliefs • Tax payments • Race & Sex

6. A Tale of Two Trends (con’t) • Numero dos • What was once the State’s power has been assumed by the Federal Government. • Examples of both trends are found throughout the rest of the lecture

7. The Constitution • The original document • Who did it give the right to vote? • Find an answer with your neighbor… • White male property owners • Probably less than 1 in 15 adult white males

8. Ben Franklin • Ben thought this was lame • He told of a man whose only property was a jackass and noted that the man would lose the right to vote if his jackass died. “Now,” asked Franklin, “in whom is the right of suffrage? In the man or the jackass?”

9. FIVE STAGES OF SUFFRAGE • Stage one (1810-1850) • Context (other things happening) • Missouri Compromise (1821) • Monroe Doctrine (1823) • California becomes state (1850) • Religious requirements are removed • Property ownership and tax payment requirements are gone. • Who would this now include?

10. FIVE STAGES OF SUFFRAGE • 15th Amendment (stage two) (1870) • All adult males can vote • Does this happen? Who is not included even though they are supposed to be? • Context • Union Pacific meets Central Pacific (1869) • Grant is President

11. FIVE STAGES OF SUFFRAGE • 19th amendment (1920) (stage 3) • Right to vote regardless of sex • Civil Rights Movement(1960’s) (stage 4) • Voting Rights Act (1965) • Passage of this bill and enforcement of civil rights acts finally led to African American inclusion. • 24th Amendment (1964) • Eliminated poll taxes as a condition for voting

12. FIVE STAGES OF SUFFRAGE • 26th Amendment (1971) • Voter age set at 18

13. Voter Qualifications • Set by each state • Reserved for the states except as instructed by the above amendments • Based on: • Citizenship • Illegal Aliens are not denied the right to vote by the constitution • State could allow them to vote if they so choose • How would you feel if California allowed this? • Residence • Must reside in the state a specified period of time • The requirement cannot exceed 30 days • Age • Determined by what? • Who can’t vote: • People in mental hospitals or legally found to be incompetnet • People convicted of a serious crime • And in some states people dishonorably discharged from the military

14. TIME TO VOTE!! • We are going to vote on the next activity. • Would you like to answer questions on Socrative or play “Pictionary”?

15. Pictionary • Teams will select a person to draw • I will give that person an idea to draw • Example: I will say to the drawers “15th Amendment. • They will have to draw or act out the 15th Amendment until someone on their team guess it. • After a team member guess the answer, someone else on the team will have to give a definition or summary of the answer to score the point.