Election 2020: Why Voting Matters (Unit 3: Voter Rights & Access)

This unit provides extensive resources and suggested activities around the history of voting rights in the United States, the expansion of voting rights to 16 year olds, the history of gerrymandering, and the curtailment of the right to vote in recent years. Two large activities are offered—the first, a Stuctured Academic Controversy (SAC) asks students to generate arguments in favor of and in opposition to lowering the voting age to 16. In the second, students participate in a simluated legislative hearing about responses to voter suppression.

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