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Hey Class!

Answer the following question in 3 sentences for your exit ticket! Click the plus sign in the lower right corner to add.

What can the struggle and fight of African Americans to vote tell us about the power of the vote? How can this help us gain an appreciation for voting today?

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the power of the vote was very important because very few African American people could make it through all of that and vote so if you made it through and were able to vote you were very powerful and could overcome anything you put you're mind to

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The fight for African Americans to vote shows how the power to vote is something valuable. It shows how it was so important that they went through all of this to vote. This helps us gain appreciation to vote because a large group of people ( African Americans and their defenders) fought so very hard for themselves and their future generations have this right.

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that its important to vote and ppl didnt wanna let them bc its so important

and we dont still have to do all that

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This shows that people really cared enough to vote, that they'd go through all of that and all of these obstacles just to make sure that their opinion was voiced.

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it was very important because African Americans did not have the right to vote and that means we had to work together to get them that right

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the helps us gain appreciation for voting by showing us the history and describing how hard it was to finally get treated equally

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the power of voiting is who u like and who ur picking for the next four years to decided the rules and we didnt have to 56 bukc to vote

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The African Americans had a serious fight not only for the right to vote but the right to have basic rights and freedoms. even though African Americans faced hard challenges, they powered through, gaining rights. this shows how people who are the minority can accomplish and become a majority like others.

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The fight and struggle of the African Americans have to vote to tell us about all the power of the votes. The power to vote was important because not many African Americans could vote.

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The struggle and fight African Americans had to do to vote is important because not many African Americans could go through the process of voting. This can help us gain appreciation for voting by understanding what African Americans went through. It was very hard for them to overcome this.

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It tells us that the power to vote was a privledge not a right. We can appreciate the fact how over 100 years later, women and men of all races are able to vote

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the power of voting was importin because no vote = no voice this helped us gain appreciation because there suffering gave us a voice today.

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the power of voting is to experss your opinion and and how who you are

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It is where you can vote for your freedom and be the man you can always try. After that it can help us by being able to speak our minds.

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The power of voting is really important because they wanted to finally have a say in politics and wanted to share their own opinions on who they thought was better.

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This shows that people cared to vote, that they would do all the tests and everything just to vote.

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Jim crow were different laws which made it hard for African Americans to vote and do other simple things. there were many ways this laws could effect you like giving you a literacy test grandfather clauses ext.

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The power to vote is very powerful because it shows other you dont give up but also that way you have a chance to vote for your leader the person you have to listen to

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The fight for African Americans and struggle to try to vote shows that voting has a very big impact on our world and how important voting can mean to people. This can help me gain appreciation because I never had to fight for my own equal rights so when I am 18 I can vote. Without having to go through the struggle many other people had to go through.

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The fight to allow African Americans to vote shows how important the right to vote is. African Americans went through alot of struggle and racism to be able to vote. This can show us the importance of our right to vote by showing how much they fought for their right to vote.

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The importance was to state your opinion. Everyones voice should be heard no matter there race or gender. Voting is apart of your freedom.

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The struggle for african americans to vote tells us that it must have been very important. Also the point that a sheriff was willing to shoot you before letting you vote shows how they do not want you to vote because voting gives you power and power is something white southerners wanted to control from african americans. African americans also were arrested if they drove to the polls and had to pass very hard tests to vote anyways, this allows us to appreciate it because their fight allows us power to vote. power still is a big thing to have and the fight the african americans posed against white people helped to give us that power, we can appreciate that because otherwise no women or african americans could vote.

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The struggle and fight African Americans had to do to vote was that there was not many ways that they could vote and be able to be like the rich white americans. This can help us gain appreciation becuase this shows that now that we have fought for our rights we can be thankfull that now everyone can voice thier opinion.

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The struggle that the African Americans went through to vote meant that voting was very meaningful to them because all of the White Americans were afraid that a African American or someone who supports the African Americans will go into office so they tried to stop the African Americans. This gave the African Americans the motivation to fight for their rights in voting and politics.

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The struggle of the African American in fighting for their right to vote show us it's importance. Nowadays everyone can freely vote, even if they are woman or black people. This can be an example of how much appreciation we should have for the right to vote, since in the past people fighted for their right to vote

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Voting is very powerful due to so many people trying to stop African Americans from voting(being in power) This causes me to appreciate voting now because now everything can vote because of African Americans years ago

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The African Americans tried so much, and so hard to try and vote, while the Whites tried so hard to push them off and say that they still had no right to vote besides the fact that they were allowed to, besides the multiple tests that came along with it. We now appreciate all of that, as now our political voting is more organized and that everyone is able to vote without tests, races, etc,.

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It can allow for many more rights in the future but racism will never end. people will always have opinions. no matter what others say.

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The right of African Americans being able to vote is very important because it shows another voice or opinion which can spread more ideas about other people or candidates.

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When Reconstruction ended in 1877, states across the South implemented new laws to restrict the voting rights of African Americans.

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The power of the right to vote now should be a well appreciated privillage for everyone as to back then there was so many steps to vote and so many complications I think this should show how greatful we should be and voting shows you have a voice which its important to have and express your own opinion.

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the power of the vote was very important because not a lot of A.A got through all of the struggles to vote.

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The struggle and fight of African Americans to vote can tell me that white people still even after the law to treat African Americans equally they didnt wanna give them that right, and they continued to add more stuff to stop them to be able to vote. Some of the things they had added for example to stop them from voting are a paying fee, grandfather clauses, and the literary test they also had to do before voting was all stuff people made to stop them to be able to vote. This can help us gain and appreciation for voting today by seeing how nowadays they let anybody vote who is over the age of 18 and dont discriminate based on race or gender.

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The struggle and fight of African Americans to vote can tell me that it can show us more importance for our future and now everyone is free to vote no matter the race or gender. It shows how much it impacted people and everything that they went through just to be able to be equal to vote no matter the race or gender.

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The power for African Americans to vote is probably very meaningful to them because only few African Americans could vote if their grandfather voted. This can help us appreciate voting today because we don't have to go through war to vote.

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The struggle and fight African Americans had to vote is important because they had a serious fight for the right to vote and to have basic rights and freedoms as others did. Not many African Americans were able to go through the process of voting and being treated equally as whites. This gave them the right to have a say in politics.

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hard for them to vote because of the things they had to do to vote and only little african americans made it through all of this vote