https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst en-us 2022-10-24 18:57:01 UTC 2022-10-26 22:09:58 UTC hello@padlet.com 1051565 https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2354204994 This is the first time men are able to have influence on the creation of laws. ]]> 2022-10-24 18:58:04 UTC https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2354204994 1051565 https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2354205485 The House of Burgesses consisted of elected representatives. People now had the ability to choose who represented them in the legislative body. ]]> 2022-10-24 18:58:21 UTC https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2354205485 1051565 https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2354206617 The only people that were allowed to vote were white men that owned land. This meant that everyone else: women, poorer people, and slaves, were not able to vote yet.]]> 2022-10-24 18:59:04 UTC https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2354206617 1051565 https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2354206903 For a temporary period, women were given suffrage, which expanded the diversity of people who had the ability to vote. ]]> 2022-10-24 18:59:16 UTC https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2354206903 1051565 https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2354210444 Meeting the qualifications for voting and holding office for white men became easier because they didn't need to have land in order to vote, which granted more white men suffrage.]]> 2022-10-24 19:01:47 UTC https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2354210444 1051565 https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2354220982 Many men were advocating for the states to abolish property requirements for voting. The desire of universal white men suffrage gave even more white men in the country suffrage, but women and African-Americans still didn't have as much voting ability. ]]> 2022-10-24 19:09:20 UTC https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2354220982 1051565 https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2354221674 The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention in the United States, which included the launch of the women's suffrage movement. ]]> 2022-10-24 19:09:47 UTC https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2354221674 1051565 https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2354225485 The 15th Amendment granted suffrage to African American men. Despite some states previously allowing free African American men to vote, now all of the African American possess that right. ]]> 2022-10-24 19:12:27 UTC https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2354225485 1051565 https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2354603894 The 19th Amendment granted suffrage to women. With the efforts from the women's suffrage movement, all American women now have the right to vote.]]> 2022-10-25 01:36:56 UTC https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2354603894 1051565 https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2354611651 The Voting Rights act abolished discriminatory voting practices that were adopted after the Civil War that prevented people, specifically uneducated African Americans, from being able to vote. This eased the prerequisites to voting, which led to more people given the ability to vote.]]> 2022-10-25 01:42:30 UTC https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2354611651 1051565 https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2355946109 The Magnuson Act worked towards more people having suffrage by granting Chinese people this ability. Even though not all races still weren't granted suffrage, this is the first time Asians have been able to vote in the United States.]]> 2022-10-25 18:05:48 UTC https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2355946109 1051565 https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2355953284 The Twenty Fourth Amendment led to more economic diversity within the voters of the United States. This because with the abolishment of poll taxes, voting for poorer populations became easier because they didn't have to spend any money to vote. ]]> 2022-10-25 18:09:57 UTC https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2355953284 1051565 https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2355970890 The Twenty Sixth Amendment led to a slightly wider age gap within the voters of the United States. People are now able to vote starting at a younger age, which gives more of an accurate display of what the newer generations want from the country. ]]> 2022-10-25 18:20:40 UTC https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2355970890 1051565 https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2355975277 Even though Indigenous Americans were given the right to vote from the Snyder Act (1924), some states still prevented these people from voting. Some Indigenous Americans that were living in reservations were still barred from voting due to people seeing them as citizens of a tribe, not the United States. Extending voting rights to these people allows even more Indigenous Americans to be able to vote.]]> 2022-10-25 18:23:26 UTC https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2355975277 1051565 https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2357467224 The Snyder act gave full U.S. citizenship and suffrage to indigenous Americans. An issue that would still be present is that some of these indigenous populations still wouldn't be able to vote due to states continuing to have prerequisites that would prevent them from being able to vote. ]]> 2022-10-26 15:06:29 UTC https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2357467224 1051565 https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2357485608 The Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act gives overseas citizens and servicemembers the ability to vote through absentee ballots. Overseas U.S. citizens and servicemembers are still citizens of the United States even if they aren't in the country, which is why they should still be given the ability to vote.]]> 2022-10-26 15:16:34 UTC https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2357485608 1051565 https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2357498223 The Freedom to Vote Act allows people that have been convicted of an offense to still be able to vote. Even though these people have committed crimes, those crimes, especially if they're from the far past, should not take away people's rights to vote.]]> 2022-10-26 15:24:06 UTC https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2357498223 1051565 https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2358021487 The Immigration and Nationality Act granted more Asian immigrants visas and citizenships, which widened the restrictions to allow voting for Asian immigrants. This diversifies the voting demographic of Asians in the United States from mostly Chinese-American voters.]]> 2022-10-26 21:42:58 UTC https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2358021487 1051565 https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2358023069
California's Senate Bill 589 allowed citizens that are deemed "mentally incompetent" the right to vote, which expands the number of states that these people are able to vote in. ]]> 2022-10-26 21:45:18 UTC https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2358023069 1051565 https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2358023708 Even though poll taxes have been removed, poorer people, especially homeless people, still struggled with being able to vote due to not having a permanent living address. The Help America Vote Act helps these populations by easing the requirements to vote so that they don't have to provide an address to vote. ]]> 2022-10-26 21:46:22 UTC https://padlet.com/1051565/ju0p5887xhtp2dst/wish/2358023708