Period 6: US Government

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February 2021: Students will be studying Voters and Voter Behavior.

*Summarize the history of voting rights in the United States

*Identify and explain constitutional restrictions on the State's power to set voting qualifications.

*Identify universal qualifications for voting in the United States

*Explain the other requirements that States use to have as voting qualifications.

*Describe the tactics often used to deny African Americans the right to vote despite the command of the 15th Amendment

*Understand the significance of the civil rights laws enacted in 1957, 1960, and 1964.

*Analyze the provisions and effects of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

*Examine the problem of nonvoting in this country.

*Identify those people who typically do not vote.

*Examine the behavior of those who vote and those who do not.

*Understand the sociological and psychological factors that affect voting and voting behavior.