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LLAWMAKINGAWMAKING in the United Statesin the United States Fun FactsFun Facts by Barbara Magalnickby Barbara Magalnick • 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. • 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 • Headings• Headings Scott Foresman Social StudiesScott Foresman Social Studies ì<(sk$m)=beibij<ì<(sk$m)=beibij<ISBNISBN 0-328-14818-00-328-14818-0 +^-Ä-U-Ä-U+^-Ä-U-Ä-U
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One of the most important rights in our country is the right to vote.You are going to Write to It! read about the history of voting laws in theUnited States and how the laws have been LWrite one paragraph about someAWMAKING changed. Read about each change and why it reasons why people should vote in took place. Think about what these changes in the United Statespresidential elections. have meant. by Barbara Magalnick Vocabulary Write your paragraph on another sheet of paper. President freedom citizen Congress government 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. Unless otherwise acknowledged, all photographs are the property of Scott Foresman, a division of Pearson Education. ISBN: 0-328-14818-0 Photo locators denoted as follows: Top (T), Center (C), Bottom (B), Left (L), Right (R), Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc. Background (Bkgd) All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America. This publication is Cover: (Bkgd) National Archives, (C) ©George D. Lepp/Corbis; 1 ©George D. Lepp/ protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the publisher Corbis; 2 ©Bernstein Collection/Corbis; 3 National Archives; 4 North Wind Picture prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission Archives; 5 ©W.A. Rogers/North Wind Picture Archives; 6 The Granger Collection, in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or NY; 8 The Granger Collection, NY; 10 The Granger Collection, NY; 11 Corbis; 12 likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Permissions Department, Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis; 13 Corbis; 14 Dwayne Newton/PhotoEdit; 15 ©Bob Scott Foresman, 1900 East Lake Avenue, Glenview, Illinois 60025. Editorial Offices: Glenview, Illinois • Parsippany, New Jersey • New York, New York Daemmrich/PhotoEdit; 16 National Archives 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 • Ontario, California • Mesa, Arizona
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Voting for the President The United States holds an election for President every four years. Some countries in the world do not vote for a president. In fact, some countries do not have the freedom to vote at all! When our Constitution was written in 1787, a law was made about voting.The Constitution is a paper that tells how our country is run. Each state had the right to make laws about who could vote. Thomas Jefferson was the third President of our country. James Madison was the fourth. The Constitution of the United States 2 3
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The Pioneers Go West During the 1800s, many states joined the Union. Because of hard times in Europe, many people came to America. At the same time people began to move west into land that was not yet part of the Union. The motto of the time was,“Go west, young man!” The pioneers had to travel in wagons pulled by horses or oxen. Because of the many dangers of these long trips, not The Electoral College everyone survived the difficult journey. Women in the West, working alongside Before the people vote, each state the men, were some of the first women chooses electors. In most states the electors allowed to vote. vote for the candidate who has won the popular vote. The pioneers were looking for land. The electors in each state meet.This is called the electoral college.The electors vote for their candidate. The winner of most of the electoral votes becomes President. 4 5
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The North and South Disagree By the middle of the 19th century, the With the election of Abraham Lincoln United States was becoming divided. The in 1860, Civil War broke out in the United northern states had cities and factories, States. During the war, Abraham Lincoln while the southern states had farms and started to give the enslaved people their plantations. Enslaved people in the South did freedom. He did this by signing a paper much of the work, but they could not vote. called the Emancipation Proclamation. As The northern states had put an end to the war continued, some former slaves slavery and wanted the southern states to joined the Union army. do the same. Some Southerners were angry that the northern states were telling them what to do.They wanted to make their own choices about slavery. Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War. 6 7
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The Civil War Wins Freedom for Enslaved People While enslaved people were given freedom, they had a hard time getting their full rights. After the Civil War the 15th Amendment was added to the Constitution. An amendment is a change to the Constitution.This gave voting rights to African American men, who were now citizens of the Union. Some southern states, however, made it very hard for the men to vote.They had laws that made men pay a tax in order to vote, and some men did not have enough money. The men also had to show they could read and write. It had been against the law, however, to teach these skills to slaves, and many former slaves had never been to school. The 15th Amendment gave African American men the right to vote. 8 9
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The Difficulty of Trying to Vote Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony There were other things that made it worked hard telling people that women should be hard for African American men to vote. In allowed to vote. some states there were “grandfather” laws that said men who were descended from Women Work to Get the Vote slaves could not vote.This meant that if While some men were allowed to vote, someone’s father or grandfather had been a women could not. For many years Susan B. slave, they could not vote. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were It seemed that only the small number of part of a group of women who worked African American men who had been raised to change this.They had a difficult time! in northern states got to vote. In northern The women and their followers were often states, there were also rules that said voters insulted. Anthony was once arrested for must own land. voting illegally. 10 11
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Western States First to Give Women Voting Rights When the Civil War ended, many people decided to go west. Families settled on land and worked on farms.Women worked hard, along with the men.Women in the West were the first to be given voting rights for local elections. Wyoming was the first territory to give voting rights to women in 1869.Women could not yet vote for President, but they could now vote in some elections. When the United States entered World War I, women worked in factories and on farms while the men were away fighting. Women continued to work hard to prove that they should be allowed to vote. Men and women worked together. There was lots of work to do! 12 13
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Amending the Constitution Since voting laws for our President were written in the Constitution, it would have to be changed so that women could vote. An amendment would have to be added to make this change. Adding an amendment can take a long time. First,Congress must approve the new amendment.Then it is sent to the states for approval. In 1920, women’s long fight for the vote succeeded when the 19th Amendment The 24th Amendment says that every citizen is to the Constitution was approved.Women allowed to vote. could now vote for President! Voting Rights Are Civil Rights! During the 1960s people asked if our laws were fair to everyone. In 1964 the 24th Amendment to the Constitution said that unpaid taxes could not be used to keep anyone from voting. Congress later passed the Voting Rights Act.This allowed the federal government to make sure states did not keep anyone from voting. Every citizen was now allowed to vote! 14 15
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GlossaryOne of the most important rights in our country is the right to vote.You are going to Write to It! read about the history of voting laws in thecitizen a member of a country United States and how the laws have been Write one paragraph about some changed. Read about each change and why itCongress the part of the United States reasons why people should vote in took place. Think about what these changesgovernment that writes and votes on our presidential elections. have meant.laws freedom every citizen’s right to make Write your paragraph on another sheet of paper. Vocabularychoices President governmentfreedom a group of people who work citizentogether to run a city, state, or country PresidentCongressthe leader of our country government 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. Unless otherwise acknowledged, all photographs are the property of Scott Foresman, a division of Pearson Education. ISBN: 0-328-14818-0 Photo locators denoted as follows: Top (T), Center (C), Bottom (B), Left (L), Right (R), Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc. Background (Bkgd) All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America. This publication is Cover: (Bkgd) National Archives, (C) ©George D. Lepp/Corbis; 1 ©George D. Lepp/ protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the publisher Corbis; 2 ©Bernstein Collection/Corbis; 3 National Archives; 4 North Wind Picture prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission Archives; 5 ©W.A. Rogers/North Wind Picture Archives; 6 The Granger Collection, in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or NY; 8 The Granger Collection, NY; 10 The Granger Collection, NY; 11 Corbis; 12 likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Permissions Department, Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis; 13 Corbis; 14 Dwayne Newton/PhotoEdit; 15 ©Bob Scott Foresman, 1900 East Lake Avenue, Glenview, Illinois 60025. Daemmrich/PhotoEdit; 16 National Archives 16 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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