Summarizing the Amendments 📜

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain how the laws concerning slavery have changed since the signing of the Constitution
• Describe the amendments that ensured the right to vote for African Americans
• Summarize women's struggles for the right to vote
• Explain why the voting age was lowered to eighteen
• Describe how the amendment process gives Americans a voice in their government

⏰ What We Did

• Watched and took instructional notes on Lesson 6, Part 3: Changing the Law of the Land
• Began working on a summary poster of an assigned constitutional amendment, using the rubric provided

⚙️ Resources

• Lesson 6, Part 3: Changing the Law of the Land
• Summarizing the Amendments rubric
• The Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, with Commentary