The History of Voting Rights in the United States

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  • How did voting rights in the United States evolve over time? What are the voting rights amendments? What barriers to voting have existed in the United States? All of these questions and more are answered in this overview of the history of voting rights in the United States.
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  • @ydkerxck
    @ydkerxck 3 роки тому +41

    Teacher made do this

  • @VerywellInformed
    @VerywellInformed 4 роки тому +16

    *It's really heartbreaking to see so much efforts to create such amazing videos go unnoticed.*
    *Keep Going.* ❤

    • @PursuitofHistory
      @PursuitofHistory  4 роки тому +2

      Thank you!! :). I have so much fun creating these videos and sharing my love of history. I am absolutely thrilled when other people find them interesting or useful, too. :)

    • @nicolekey328
      @nicolekey328 4 роки тому +1

      Pursuit of History is the way you are in

    • @kumibarua2622
      @kumibarua2622 3 роки тому +1

      VeryWell Informed that is so true. It's an amazing video.

  • @aidennavarro4622
    @aidennavarro4622 3 роки тому +8

    teacher made me do this

  • @fredabanks30
    @fredabanks30 3 роки тому +5

    A great summarization of voting rights history for youth to understand

  • @kejhirodriguez6952
    @kejhirodriguez6952 3 роки тому +1

    thank you amazing for
    class

  • @tishsmiddy71
    @tishsmiddy71 3 роки тому +4

    Land , Rights and War !

  • @swapnildesai2097
    @swapnildesai2097 3 роки тому

    Cool

  • @sweetlilella1983
    @sweetlilella1983 3 роки тому +2

    i love your video.

  • @Fardonya
    @Fardonya 4 роки тому +4

    967th sub

  • @bkariru
    @bkariru 3 роки тому +4

    Im from varsity tutors

  • @samuelb-1406
    @samuelb-1406 4 роки тому +4

    900th sub!

  • @nealniemiec
    @nealniemiec Рік тому +2

    Consider this - most of the men that fought in the civil war couldn't vote.

  • @mr.l8527
    @mr.l8527 3 роки тому

    Perhaps that literacy test was originally intended to quell the minority vote...
    However if the knowing the answers to such questions (like ones presented in the video) were required today, I'd support that idea.
    In this modern age of information, where (almost) all of human knowledge is available in the palm of your hand, we have little excuse for not knowing such things.
    Requiring such knowledge would help people in being better informed voters
    As it stands, a majority of voters are under or misinformed, receiving most of their information from corporate media outlets, social media or (believe it or not) entertainers.
    Implementing such a system would (essentially) force people to educate themselves to better understand the government and what each candidate is actually about, making the general public less easily manipulated by lofty or divisive political rhetoric.
    An informed and educated citizenry is a powerful citizenry and one any government or it's political players have trouble coercing or wresting anything from.
    Knowledge is power.

    • @RC51Legend
      @RC51Legend Рік тому

      Yes, citizen tests for all citizens.

  • @BifronsCandle
    @BifronsCandle 3 роки тому +3

    Shouldn't have skipped over the Jacksonian movement, which spread Universal White Male Suffrage by 1856. That aside, I like the video's style.

  • @DigitalYojimbo
    @DigitalYojimbo 11 місяців тому +1

    now we have 18 year olds that dont know what 3x3x3 or "name 2 countries bordering the US" that can vote.

  • @ChickSage
    @ChickSage 4 роки тому +8

    Voter ID laws amount to nothing less than a poll tax, and I still can't believe everyone went along with disenfranchising those living in poverty. I once had someone take issue with me, saying that a voter ID is free. I had to remind him that it costs money to acquire the documentation that one needs to have, in order to get a voter ID, and it still amounts to the poor being stripped of their right to vote, just because they are poor.
    Thank you for the great video.
    peace

    • @aabhasrai303
      @aabhasrai303 3 роки тому +2

      in india where there is lot of poverty compared to US there is compulsary voter ID, even if a poor person doesn't have two meal a day to eat he has voter id and it is easily accessible and India has second largest population , if they can do it then why can't the most powerful and rich country in the world.

    • @aabhasrai303
      @aabhasrai303 3 роки тому

      Without identifying the person how could you ensure one person one vote , and no meddling in voting , which is the bedrock of voting rights

    • @ChickSage
      @ChickSage 3 роки тому

      @@aabhasrai303 That's a good question. Before voter ID laws, I never needed an ID to vote, I just had to tell them my name and they would mark it off the list of names of people who were designated to vote at that location. You see, in order to steal my vote, Someone would have had to know where my designated polling station was and they would have had to hope I never showed up to vote, because the people at the polling station kept track of who had or had not voted. So, when I showed up to vote and someone had already voted, saying they were me, they would have known something was up. This is why we didn't have widespread voter fraud, and why there was no reason to enact voter ID laws. Well, there was a reason, they wanted to make it harder for poor people to vote, because poor people don't usually vote for the GOP. I hope that response wasn't to incoherent lol
      peace

    • @aabhasrai303
      @aabhasrai303 3 роки тому

      @@ChickSage if that were true than there won't be hundreds of countries enacting voter id laws even third world countries have voter id laws. I just want to make a point that you don't have to remove voter id you just have to make them easily accessible which is definitely possible in country like US. ID does have very much significance otherwise hotels, airports and daily life needs won't require them .

    • @ChickSage
      @ChickSage 3 роки тому

      @@aabhasrai303 I think they could make it easier to get voter IDs, but that would defeat the purpose of making it harder for poor people to vote. Plus, we didn't need them. I would understand enacting voter ID laws, if there had been a significant amount of voter fraud, but there hadn't been, because the system worked just fine, without voter ID laws. I don't have a problem with the concept of using a voter ID. As far as I'm concerned, they can implement all of the useless safeguards they want to, as long as it doesn't make it more difficult to vote.
      peace

  • @its_aileen463
    @its_aileen463 3 роки тому +2

    Teacher wanna make me learn about Elizabeth Cady Staton 😺✌🏽

    • @PursuitofHistory
      @PursuitofHistory  3 роки тому

      That’s awesome! Elizabeth Cady Stanton was certainly a strong leader in the women’s rights movement and more. Have fun!

  • @p6315713
    @p6315713 2 роки тому +3

    The landowner part should still be in place, if you dont own a piece of this country why should you have a say in how the land is governed... this is why the metro area of each state or about 5% of the land is blue and keeps winning elections.

    • @ChickSage
      @ChickSage Рік тому

      I should have a say in how this nation is governed because I live here, pay taxes, and obey the law. A lot of good men laid down their lives to secure that right for me and I would gladly lay down mine to keep you from taking that right away.
      Peace

    • @p6315713
      @p6315713 Рік тому

      @@ChickSage you are a cancer, what do you own? why should you have a say???

    • @ChickSage
      @ChickSage Рік тому

      @@p6315713 There is no need to call me names. If you insist on being rude, I will end this conversation.
      I already do have a say, where are you from? You see, in the USA, we have a Constitution and according to it, I'm a citizen and as such, I have the right to vote. That is just one of the things that makes this such a great country.

    • @p6315713
      @p6315713 Рік тому

      @@ChickSage

    • @p6315713
      @p6315713 Рік тому

      the right to vote was originally to be only for land owners, the people who own the land to say how it is governed, now we have tiny blue dots in every state deciding elections in metropolitan areas.. we own the land... we should be the ones to govern the laws on our "owned" land... not a small spec of congregated people in metro areas... WE OWN THE LAND!!!!

  • @alyssalane6020
    @alyssalane6020 3 роки тому +1

    I did not no abawt voting bot this video help''t my kids

  • @windowsill8341
    @windowsill8341 3 роки тому

    teacher made me to this

  • @lewwho384
    @lewwho384 3 роки тому +6

    Who is here from varsity tutors

  • @toniamedianews
    @toniamedianews 10 місяців тому

    Very insightful. Thank you. Love from Zimbabwe.

  • @aidennavarro4622
    @aidennavarro4622 3 роки тому +1

    really

  • @m3l1ssq
    @m3l1ssq 3 роки тому +6

    who else is here because you're teacher made you watch this 🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️

  • @noonsuca9786
    @noonsuca9786 3 роки тому +1

    I know this is all true

  • @Mr.Paticles
    @Mr.Paticles Рік тому

    Voting Rights has been the a problem since the very foundation of Democracy in Ancient Greece. Socrates, believed that only educated people on issues pertaining to the state should vote. To prevent demogoguery, a populist from ever sitting to power which might one day crown himself a king. And for that he was sentence to death.
    The same problem plagued the Roman Republic, thier fix was the patron system. Where the upper classes of society offers protection and security to the common people in terms of money, food and legal help on which they become clients. Their downfall brought forth by internal family struggles between the upper classes which by default included their clients.
    The American Republic also tried to fix such things by intruducing the electoral system, which is currently being put into question.
    At the end of the day, democracy and voting rights exist to prevent a single person holding to much power. The irony is, it is now put to the people to the people to decide who will they give that power.
    At the end of the day, voting should not become a right but a skill to see through those incompetent populist.
    It should be remembered that Socrates died for his idea, that an uneducated voter invites incompetent politicians which ultimately leads to curruption and eventually invites a dictator.

  • @dplj4428
    @dplj4428 20 днів тому

    -- Why did Benjamin Franklin change his mind about slavery?
    -- When did each state give the right to vote to men who did not own land?
    -- Were all those voters white?
    -- Was it possible to vote if a man only owned a person but no land?
    -- What is the history behind Oregon outlawing slavery?
    -- What law did Great Britain enact in 1807?
    -- Why was there a war of 1812?
    -- Which were the last 5 states to ratify the 15th amendment?
    -- In which year did those 5 states ratify the 15th Amendment?
    -- What was the focus of the 14th and 15th amendments.
    -- Where can we view all the versions of Constitution that the founding colonies voted on?
    -- Where can we view or get copies the first State Constitutions?
    -- Which was the last of the 13 original colonies to join the Republic?
    -- Why did that 13th colony hesitate to join the Republic?
    public?
    -- Did any of the first 13 ever outlaw human trafficking?
    -- How was the presidential election of 1789 rigged?
    -- Was the 14th or 15th amendments enacted during or after Reconstruction?
    -- If you could interview anyone from the First Constitutional Congress, what would you want to ask them?
    This video says the founding fathers left the right to vote to the states. The republic also avoided a fight over representation in states where the overall population had fewer white land owners who were numerically outnumbered by native residents and trafficked people.

  • @leoborros
    @leoborros 2 роки тому +3

    Too many people that dont contribute and dont have skin in the game have the right to vote, and this shouldnt be like this.

    • @The_10th_Man
      @The_10th_Man Рік тому

      That sounds good, but the unintended consequence of that would be crushing economic mobility. Then again, with the universal system you run the risk of those without property depriving those with property of their rights, and then nobody has property. Which is worse?

    • @ChickSage
      @ChickSage Рік тому

      If you live here, you have skin in the game.

  • @mycatissupercalifragilisti9332
    @mycatissupercalifragilisti9332 2 роки тому

    Have to study about this at 1:00AM because I forgot to do it😭

  • @JesusKathrynMiller
    @JesusKathrynMiller 11 місяців тому +1

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  • @loganwilsongaming4584
    @loganwilsongaming4584 3 роки тому

    I like it 😓😓😒

  • @kingcarlos4348
    @kingcarlos4348 3 роки тому

    James Madison was right

  • @foodsafetypragmatist
    @foodsafetypragmatist 2 роки тому

    Excuse me…America is NOT a Democracy; America IS a Representative Republic. Whoever created this video needs to change the end (the last line of dialogue). No wonder so many people don’t understand the difference.

  • @drakethedragon100
    @drakethedragon100 3 роки тому +4

    They still find ways to limit black men from voting...or owning guns...getting jobs...etc. makes me think we haven’t come far enough.

  • @jhacksb1399
    @jhacksb1399 3 роки тому +2

    You care about voting, do you? Why not fight to give native Americans the right to vote?

    • @pepperVenge
      @pepperVenge 10 місяців тому

      Native Americans have had the right to vote since the 1930's.

  • @klikmarketing3069
    @klikmarketing3069 3 роки тому

    who will be president Trump or Obama ahhhhh who you choose people

    • @drain4314
      @drain4314 3 роки тому

      Obama isnt running anymore

  • @Pablito-12
    @Pablito-12 3 роки тому +2

    lol

  • @Clever901
    @Clever901 2 місяці тому

    Some folk are naturally evil

  • @warningerick
    @warningerick 8 місяців тому

    i dislike this video

  • @swapnildesai2097
    @swapnildesai2097 3 роки тому

    Cool