Congress and the States Moved Quickly to Pass the Twenty-Sixth

question 7

Multiple Choice

Congress and the states moved quickly to pass the Twenty-sixth Amendment,which lowered the voting age to eighteen,because they

• A)recognized the justice of the student antiwar and civil rights movements.
• B)knew that student voter turnout would be low.
• C)expected the new voters to change the political balance of power drastically.
• D)hoped to channel student energy away from demonstrations and toward more conventional forms of participation.
• E)realized the unfairness of the discrepancy between the military draft age and the voting age.

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