Curated Video
Victoria Woodhull: The First Woman To Run for President
Victoria Woodhull ran for President of the United States before most American women were even allowed to vote.
Curated Video
Get Schooled! How the Electoral College Works
It's a system that's unique to the United States of American – but exactly is the electoral college, how does it work and what part does it play in our democracy? Discover more about the group of "electors" who have the final say.
Curated Video
Blazing a Trail for Women's Votes
We often think of the American West as a lawless, uncivilized place. But in the 19th century, it was ahead of its time – as the only part of America where women could vote.
Curated Video
Who has the Right to Vote in the United States?
Puerto Ricans pays taxes but can't vote in Presidential Elections. While in Chicago, between 2006 and 2016, 199 dead voted from beyond the grave! So how does voting law really work in the United States?
Curated Video
The Equal Rights Amendment: A Woman's Prerogative
The Equal Rights Amendment proposes to protect women and other marginalized genders under the U.S. Constitution - so why hasn't it been ratified?
Mazz Media
Suffrage
This live-action video program is about the word Suffrage. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word Suffrage through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful,...
Bridgeman Arts
Suffragette parade in New York, c.1915
Suffragettes in New York, USA, march the streets, parading with banners and flags.
Other
The Center on Congress: One Vote
Discusses the importance of voting and how even one vote can change the course of history. [1:00]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: Women's Suffrage
In which John Green teaches you about American women in the Progressive Era and, well, the progress they made. So the big deal is, of course, the right to vote women gained when the 19th amendment was passed and ratified. But women made...
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow laws mainly targeted African Americans and took the form of poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Greek and Roman Ideas About Voting
The Greeks and Romans believed that voters needed to have an economic investment in their communities, e.g., by owning property, in order to vote thoughtfully.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Elections and Voting Part 6: Every Vote Counts
Government is not the possession of the ruling party: it belongs to the people.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Civil Rights Part 15: Voting Rights Act of 1965
Today we discuss the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This episode originally aired in November 2011.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Episode 198 Right to Vote in Early America
Today we discuss representation and the right to vote in early American state constitutions.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Expanding Suffrage
There were a number of constitutional amendments that expanded the right to vote.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: The Fifteenth Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment expanded the right to vote to ensure that African Americans could exercise this right.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Introduction to Voting Rights
The right to vote is now given to most adults in the United States but this was not always the case.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: The Right to Vote
The right to vote is the backbone of American democracy, making it possible for all adult citizens to participate in government.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Voting Rights in the American Colonies
The right to vote in the American colonies was limited to property owners, and although a wider subset of the population could vote than in Britain, many groups were still excluded.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Deciding Who Can Vote
The Constitutional Convention left it to the states to decide who was eligible to vote.This meant that struggles to win the right to vote first happened in individual states.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Native Americans and Voting: Part 2
Even with the passing of the Fourteenth Amendment, Native Americans were not recognized as full citizens of the United States, so still could not vote.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Eighteen Year Olds and the Vote
Describes how eighteen-year-olds won the right to vote, and the passing of the 26th Amendment by Congress.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Citizenship Pt. 28: Citizenship and Public Office
Looks at the right of citizens and residents to vote and hold public office.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Citizenship Pt. 29: The Right to Vote Is Not Universal
Some citizens of the United States generally do not qualify to vote in national elections.