Questions For Concept 1: What Is Suffrage?

  • Do you know that the right to vote is called suffrage? What does having the right to vote mean?
  • Do those with the right to vote have more power than those without?
  • Does everyone have the right to vote? Who does? Who doesn't?
  • Who are some groups of people that have earned the right to vote over the years?
  • What did they do to earn the right to vote?
  • When or if you did not get to vote, how did/would it feel to be powerless?
  • Why would you want the right to vote?
 
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