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First, "remake" this timeline for your own use.  Be sure to select "copy design" AND "copy posts." If you are working with a partner, share it with them and allow them to edit the Padlet.
Then, choose the three most important expansions and the three most important contractions/ restrictions in voting rights throughout the history of the US.   For each event, determine the year the event happened and click the "plus" sign between the already existing timeline events to add the event in chronological order.  Then, for each entry: add a picture to symbolize the event, title the event with the year it happened, provide a 1-3 sentence paraphrased explanation of the event, and create a 1-3 sentence analysis as to why you chose this event (ie. analyze why this is such a significant event). The first event on the timeline (1789) has been done to model how you should do your events.
Note: it is an expectation that you will be practicing your paraphrasing skills in each of your six explanations.

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1789 - 1st Government meets under U.S. Constitution 

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1789 - 1st Government meets under U.S. Constitution 

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EXPLANATION: The Constitution was passed, and the first Congress met with the newly elected President, George Washington leading the country. The words in the Constitution did not define who a citizen was but instead said that any citizen of a state was deemed a citizen of the nation. At the time, most states only granted the right to vote to white, male property owners, and therefore, poor people, women, Native Americans, and African- Americans were restricted from voting.
Analysis: This event was significant because right when the United States gained its independence from Great Britain, the Founding Fathers decided to restrict the right to vote to a limited few: white, male property owners.  The fight to gain equal voting rights for all has been ongoing for 231 years due to this early decision.

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EXPLANATION: The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo ended the Mexican, American War. The treaty guarantees citizenship to Mexicans living in the newly acquired territories of Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas and Nevada.
ANALYSIS: The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo was important because it allowed for Mexicans to become citizens and be safe in the US.

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The war between the United States (the Union) and the Confederacy (southern states that had seceded or left the Union to form their own country) was about slavery and keeping the union together.  Nearly 180,000 Union soldiers were African American.

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EXPLANATION: Even though many voting booths still banned women from voting many western states started warming up to the fact that women should be aloud to vote. Finally in 1920 after many failed attemps the 19th amendment was aproved! The amendment prohibits states or the federal government from restricting suffrage based on gender.
ANALYSIS: Moving in the right direction!  White women get to vote! Now let's alow black women.

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By 1941 when the US entered the war, women and Native Americans had obtained the right to vote.  African Americans were still being excluded from the vote due to Jim Crow laws and other exclusionary laws that left them out of the voting process; however, they were still drafted into WWII, and ironically, they were asked to defend democracy oversees while they were denied the right to be active participants in it at home. Between 1941 & 1945, over 1 million African American men served in the US military. 6500 African American women served as Army and Navy nurses, but until 1945, the military restricted how many were allowed to enlist.

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EXPLANATION: Although a law was passed in 1871 that blacks were aloud to vote, many did not. In some states black men can only vote if his grandfather had been able to vote in primaries. Other states only allowed whites to vote in the primaries. In the south literacy requirements, physical violence, property destruction, hiding the polls and economic pressures still kept many blacks from voting
ANALYSIS: Why would they go through the trouble to pass a law that black men can vote if they aren't going to abolish literacy requirements, physical violence, property destruction, hiding the polls and economic pressures.

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EXPLANATION: After the 15th Amendment establishes the right of African-American males to vote, states, especially in the South, kept most African-Americans from voting, both through legislation and through violence and intimidation. To do this the enforced poll taxes  reading requirements, physical violence, property destruction, hiding the polls, and economic pressures.
ANALYSIS: I chose this event because the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted African American men the right to vote. This was a very big step in history even though many white people fought against it.

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1972-1975 - Voting Rights Act Reauthorization

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1972-1975 - Voting Rights Act Reauthorization

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EXPLANATION: By 1972 almost all of adults were allowed to vote in the United States. Congress enhanced the Voting Rights Act in 1975 to include language assistance for minority voters, who could not vote if ballots and instructions were only available in English. Because of the Reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act, the right to vote is now available to all Mexican-Americans.
ANALYSIS: This was a significant event because  the were a lot of immigrants in the United states who did not have a lot of rights. This was a very big step into more rights for people of different cultures and color.

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EXPLANATION: Vote fruad breaks out in many places. Thousands of people are blocked from voting. Over a million ballots never get counted.
ANALYSIS: Very bad. Many people's opinion never gets heard.