Month 3 week 4: Voting Amendments in America, due 11/20/20

 

Directions: Go to the government website in which the 15th Amendment is discussed and read the article about Voting Amendments in America. Answer the questions below, post your responses. Respond to a classmate on or before Friday 11/20.

Suffrage and Civil Rights

Questions:

1. Define the word suffrage.

2. Compare the groups historically denied expansion of suffrage in the United States? Why were certain groups historically prevented from voting?

3. Soon you will be able to vote, what must you consider before you register to vote? Visit the U.S.government website on voter registration requirements. Explain the necessary steps one must take to register to vote, voter i.d. requirements and voter age requirements.

4. Now that you are on the U.S. Gov voter website, what advice is provided for selecting a candidate in the article on How to judge a candidate.How to judge a candidate?

5. What would factors would you consider when judging a candidate and why?

Month 3 week 3: due 11/13/202 Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Established in the First Amendment

 

Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Established in the First Amendment

Directions: 

Watch the Five Rights video. Answer the questions below. Post your answer.

1. How can you exercise each of the rights protected in the First Amendment in school?
2. For each of the 5 freedoms listed below, write two or three sentences explaining how you personally exercise this right.
3. Think of a current event in the news, describe the current event and explain how it relates to the First Amendment.
4. Comment on a fellow student's post

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people 

peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.