Alabama Social Studies SS24.6.17c
The Standard
- SS24.6.17
- Explain key rights included in the Bill of Rights and provide examples of how citizens exercise these rights in today’s society.
Identify constitutional amendments that expanded political rights for citizens and describe the efforts of citizens to secure these rights.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students match voting-rights amendments to the barriers they changed, including race and sex restrictions, poll taxes, and age limits. They describe how citizens organized, petitioned, and protested to secure those rights.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can identify the Fifteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-Fourth, and Twenty-Sixth Amendments and explain what each changed. They can connect an amendment to a citizen effort, such as suffragists petitioning Congress.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think the Fifteenth Amendment ended all barriers to Black voting, overlooking literacy tests and intimidation. They may think the Twenty-Fourth Amendment banned poll taxes in every election, rather than federal elections.
How to Assess It
- On an exit ticket, ask: Which amendment banned poll taxes in federal elections? Name one action citizens took to fight voting barriers.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs four amendment cards and four voting-barrier cards; have them match the cards and add a citizen action to each pair.
Ask: Why did Black citizens still face voting barriers after the Fifteenth Amendment? Have students use a poll-tax or literacy-test example.
Read a voting barrier aloud; teams hold up the matching amendment number and name a tactic citizens used to seek change.
Show a sample voter registration form; ask which amendment protects an 18-year-old citizen from being denied a vote because of age.
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