We went over Canada maps.
Notes
15th amendment
- Blacks can vote
19th
- Woman's right to vote
20th
- Sets the dates of when the presidents and vice presidents official start and end dates of office.
21st
- Prohibition ends, 18th repealed, alcohol is legal again
- Important because people were breaking the law all the time
22nd
- Limits the president to two 4 year terms
- Before it was unlimited
- Important because after 2 terms it can have a dictatorship feeling
23rd
- Citizens of D.C. receive the right to vote in presidential elections.
- Important because it doesn't make sense that certain people don't get the right to vote.
24th
- Outlaws poll taxes
- Because many African Americans were poor it allowed more of them to vote.
25th
- Outline procedures for the succession to the presidency, The V.P. takes over as president if the president is unable to fulfill his/her job
26th
- The right of 18+ year old people to vote(1971)
27th
- Congress can give themselves of a pay raise, but they have to wait until after the next election before they can get it.
- Important because they have to prove that they are worthy of reelection and therefore a pay raise.
We watched the Snapped T.V. show that Mr. Bruns was in.
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