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LAWLAWLAWLAWIt Is theIt Is theIt Is theIt Is the Fun FactsFun Facts • In 1971 the 26th Amendment lowered the• In 1971 the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age from twenty-one to eighteen.voting age from twenty-one to eighteen. by Barbara Magalnickby Barbara Magalnick • At forty-three, John F. Kennedy was the• At forty-three, John F. Kennedy was the youngest man to be elected President.youngest man to be elected President. Ronald Reagan, at sixty-nine, was theRonald Reagan, at sixty-nine, was the oldest.oldest. • New Jersey was the first state to allow• New Jersey was the first state to allow women to vote.women to vote. ComprehensionComprehension GenreGenre Text FeaturesText Features SkillSkill Nonfi ctionNonfi ction Main Idea and DetailsMain Idea and Details • Glossary• Glossary • Captions• Captions • Illustrations• Illustrations Scott Foresman Social StudiesScott Foresman Social Studies ì<(sk$m)=beibgf<ì<(sk$m)=beibgf<ISBNISBN 0-328-14816-40-328-14816-4 +^-Ä-U-Ä-U+^-Ä-U-Ä-U
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Voting is very important. You are going to read about voting laws in the United Write to It!It Is theIt Is the States and how they have changed. Read about each change. Think about what these LAWLAWIf someone asked you why it is changes mean. important to vote, what would you say? Write a short paragraph about Vocabulary your ideas. citizen freedom Congress Write your paragraph on another sheetby Barbara Magalnick of paper. Every effort has been made to secure permission and provide appropriate credit for photographic material. The publisher deeply regrets any omission and pledges to correct errors called to its attention in subsequent editions. ISBN: 0-328-14816-4 Unless otherwise acknowledged, all photographs are the property of Scott Foresman, Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc. a division of Pearson Education. All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America. This publication is Photo locators denoted as follows: Top (T), Center (C), Bottom (B), Left (L), Right (R), protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the publisher Background (Bkgd) prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or Cover: Getty Images; 1 (T, C) Getty Images; 2 (BL, BR) © Bernstein Collection/Corbis; 3 likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Permissions Department, (T) Getty Images, ©W.A. Rogers/North Wind Picture Archives; 4 The Granger Collection; Scott Foresman, 1900 East Lake Avenue, Glenview, Illinois 60025. Editorial Offices: Glenview, Illinois • Parsippany, New Jersey • New York, New York 5 The Granger Collection; 6 Corbis; 7 ©Bob Daemmrich/PhotoEdit Sales Offices: Needham, Massachusetts • Duluth, Georgia • Glenview, Illinois 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 V0G1 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 Coppell, Texas • Sacramento, California • Mesa, Arizona
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In the Constitution the Founding Fathers wrote a law about voting. Not every citizen had the right to vote then. The pioneers were looking for land. It became harder to find farmland. People began to move west. Women in the West would be some of the first women to vote. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison 2 3
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Abraham Lincoln wanted to give enslaved people freedom. The 15th Amendment gave voting rights to African American men. An amendment is a change to the Constitution. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton Some states had laws that kept women from voting. Some women did not agree with those laws. Two women who worked to change these laws were Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. African American men were given the right to vote after the Civil War. 4 5
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Today all citizens over the age of eighteen can vote. Equal voting rights are the law. Voting is an important right! Some women worked in factories. The 19th Amendment to the Constitution was passed by Congress in 1919. Women could now vote. 6 7
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Voting is very important. You are going to read about voting laws in the United Write to It! States and how they have changed. ReadGlossary about each change. Think about what these If someone asked you why it is changes mean.citizen a member of a country important to vote, what would you say? Write a short paragraph about Congress the part of the United States your ideas. Vocabularygovernment that writes and votes on our lawscitizen freedom freedomCongressevery citizen’s right to make Write your paragraph on another sheet choices of paper. Every effort has been made to secure permission and provide appropriate credit for photographic material. The publisher deeply regrets any omission and pledges to correct errors called to its attention in subsequent editions. ISBN: 0-328-14816-4 Unless otherwise acknowledged, all photographs are the property of Scott Foresman, Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc. a division of Pearson Education. All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America. This publication is Photo locators denoted as follows: Top (T), Center (C), Bottom (B), Left (L), Right (R), protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the publisher Background (Bkgd) prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or Cover: Getty Images; 1 (T, C) Getty Images; 2 (BL, BR) © Bernstein Collection/Corbis; 3 likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Permissions Department, (T) Getty Images, ©W.A. Rogers/North Wind Picture Archives; 4 The Granger Collection; Scott Foresman, 1900 East Lake Avenue, Glenview, Illinois 60025. 5 The Granger Collection; 6 Corbis; 7 ©Bob Daemmrich/PhotoEdit 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 V0G1 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05
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