Name: 【TED-Ed】美國投票權之戰 (The fight for the right to vote in the United States - Nicki Beaman Griffin)
Uploaded: 2014-11-28T16:07:17.000Z
Duration: 4 min 31 s

When the next general election rolls around,

who will be eligible to show up at the polls

and vote for the President of the United States?

After all, the United States prides itself

or a government in which the ultimate authority

the electoral college with 100% of the vote,

Only 6% of the entire United States population

from the east coast into the western frontier.

As these new areas of the nation became states,

the United State's first common man President,

promoted what he called universal suffrage.

Jackson really meant universal white, male suffrage.

By the 1850s, about 55% of the adult population

到了19世紀50年代 55%的美國成年人

which promised that a person's right to vote

Despite the promise of the 15th Amendment,

so that not even literate African-Americans

And, of course, women were still totally out

and the 19th Amendment finally gave women the vote,

憲法第19修正案 才賦予女性投票權

come home and deny suffrage based on race?

began in the 1940s with those questions in mind.

始於20世紀40年代 即以投票權爭議為開端

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【TED-Ed】美國投票權之戰 (The fight for the right to vote in the United States - Nicki Beaman Griffin)

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