Rationale for right to vote; right to vote during colonial period; justification for property requirement; suffrage in the United States compared with European nations; African American and women's suffrage; state battles for voting rights; treatment of voting in federal Constitution.
Student Questions: Unit 3, Lesson 20, Sections 1-3 (pdf download)
Image credits: Suffragists Mrs. Stanley McCormick and Mrs. Charles Parker, April 22, 1913, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-93552; Population of American Colonies, 1790, by Mapping Specialists/Center for Civic Education.
History of extension of suffrage in the United States; Civil War and Fifteenth Amendment; Republican Party and suffrage; end of Reconstruction Era and suppression of African American male voting; women?s suffrage movement; military service and extension of the right to vote.
Image credits: Company E, 4th United States Colored Infantry, 1864, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, LC-DIG-cwpb-04294; Klansmen JOe Gosiniak watches a cross burn along with his children by Paul M. Walsh, 1987, Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0; March on Washington by United States Information Agency, 1963, Wikimedia Commons/National Archives; A woman working in a wartime factory, 1914, Wikimedia Commons; Don?t Ask, Don?t Tell Campaign by Nick, 2010, Flickr/nicksarebi/CC BY 2.0; The Winner: Corporal William W. Sessions smiles as he displays the holes in his helmet by Private First Class E. E. Hildreth, 1968, Wikimedia Commons/USMC Archives/CC BY 2.0.
Extension of suffrage and emergence of a full democracy or democratic republic; lens of popular sovereignty; meaning of popular sovereignty; delivering on the promises of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.