Grade Level: Grades 5–12
Grade Level: Grades 5–12
Time: One class period (approximately 60 minutes)
Time: One class period (approximately 60 minutes)
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Numerous challenges to the U.S. Constitution marked the Reconstruction Era. This lesson reviews amendments to the U.S. Constitution that expanded suffrage during that time. Students will also learn how voting rights were denied, and how laws changed to expand rights for many in more recent history. This lesson also looks at how state laws govern our elections.
Students will learn:
--the views about Elections when our Founding Fathers framed the U.S. Constitution
--tactics used to prevent Blacks, women, immigrants, and Native Americans from voting
--how, in modern times, the power of the Executive Order may or may not expand access
This presentation contains several cases related to freedom of speech protections. You won't have time to cover them all, so select just a few, with one as a backup if you have time. Please allow at least ten minutes for Q&A.
This presentation contains several cases related to freedom of speech protections. You won't have time to cover them all, so select just a few, with one as a backup if you have time. Please allow at least ten minutes for Q&A.
2025_Voting Rights and the U.S. Constitution_JIC .pptxGrab and Go!
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The second slide is intentionally blank. It serves as a pause for you to introduce yourself. Break the ice by referencing the location of your court, highlighting what you wanted to be when you were there age. Are you from the community? Explain the purpose for your visit -- to review with them an important document (the Constitution) and an important right, the right to vote.
Classrooms today are connected to the internet. This means no more carrying around jumpdrives with lesson files. Be sure to have a brief conversation with the teacher, if you can. It will help you prepare.
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