1.Why
do you think it took almost a hundred years
for women and blacks to be guaranteed voting
rights?
2.The
road to suffrage rights was not an easy one for African-Americans or women. Why did so many people fight so hard for something
that today, few people
do? (only 49% of U.S. citizens voted in the 1996 presidential
election)
3.The
26th Amendment, guaranteeing 18 year olds the right to vote, once proposed,
passed with much more ease
than the 15th and
19th Amendments. Why do think this was true?
