It Is the Fun Facts In 1971 the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age from twenty-one to eighteen. At forty-three, John F. Kennedy was the youngest man to be elected President. Ronald Reagan, at sixty-nine, was the oldest. New Jersey was the first state to allow women to vote. Genre Nonfiction Comprehension Skill Text Features Main Idea and Details • Glossary Captions Illustrations Scott Foresman Social Studies ISBN 0-328-14816-4 ì<(sk$m)=beibgf< +^-Ä-U-Ä-U LAW by Barbara Magalnick Voting is very important. You are going to read about voting laws in the United States and how they have changed. Read about each change. Think about what these changes mean. Vocabulary citizen freedom Congress ISBN: 0-328-14816-4 Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America. This publication is protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to: Permissions Department, Scott Foresman, 1900 East Lake Avenue, Glenview, Illinois 60025. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 V0G1 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 Write to It! It Is the If someone asked you why it is important to vote, what would you say? Write a short paragraph about your ideas. LAW Write your paragraph on Magalnick another sheet by Barbara 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. Unless otherwise acknowledged, all photographs are the property of Scott Foresman, a division of Pearson Education. Photo locators denoted as follows: Top (T), Center (C), Bottom (B), Left (L), Right (R), Background (Bkgd) Cover: Getty Images; 1 (T, C) Ge