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What are some events in the 1960's that may have influenced the decision to lower the voting age to 18?
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The franchise has been extended slowly, to one group after another
throughout U.S. history, as the full privileges and rights of citizenship
have been granted to those left out at the nation's founding. In 1869, the
Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution abolished barriers to voting on
the basis of race, permitting African American men to vote for the first
time. American women fought for the right to vote for more than 75
years, but it was not until ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in
1920 that voting prohibitions on the basis of sex were abolished. In the
1960s, the matter of age was addressed. The voting age had long been 21
in most of the United States, but during the Vietnam conflict, men
younger than 21 were being drafted and sent to war. As a result, the
Twenty-sixth Amendment lowered the voting age to 18 in 1971.
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What were some of the events in the 1960s that may have influenced the decision to lower the voting to 18?
Eighteen-year-old males could be drafted into the military service in the 1960s, and a growing number of people were of the opinion that if they could be soldiers at that age they also should be eligible to vote. Also, different States had different voting ages, and it was felt that it should be the same nation-wide.
What were some of the events in the 1960s that may have influenced the decision to lower the voting age to 18?
Eighteen-year-old males could be drafted into the military service in the 1960s, and a growing number of people were of the opinion that if they could be soldiers at that age they also should be eligible to vote. Also, different States had different voting ages, and it was felt that it should be the same nation-wide.
What were some of the events in the 1960s that may have in fluenced the decision to lower the voting age to 18?
In my experience many of us were teens in the military and wondered why we could fight and possibly die for our country, - but not vote for it's leaders.
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