Voting in America

The right to vote has not always been a right for everyone in America. Voting rights have changed over the last 200 years for many. In the lesson, students will learn about voting rights in America by analyzing primary sources regarding suffrage and create a timeline to illustrate how voting rights have changed. Students will also take on the perspective of someone who lived during a time without voting rights and late obtained the right to vote, by writing a narrative a culminating activity.