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Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution

High school (ages 12+)
People & Society

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/twenty-third-amendment-to-the-united-states-constitution

Step 2 · Questions

1. What is the location?
2. What is the year proposed?
3. What is the Twenty-third Amendment?
4. Why did Washington, D.C. need the amendment?

Step 3 · Words to know

Write what each word means, using the article.

Federal District
Suffrage
Enfranchisement

Step 4 · Two facts in your own words

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

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Answer key (teacher copy)

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the location?District of Columbia, United States
2. What is the year proposed?1960
3. What is the Twenty-third Amendment?It gives the District of Columbia electoral votes in presidential elections, treating it like a state for that purpose.
4. Why did Washington, D.C. need the amendment?Before the amendment, D.C. residents could not vote for the President, so the amendment gave them a voice in choosing the nation's chief executive.

Federal District: A territory designated for the capital of a country, separate from any state jurisdiction.
Suffrage: The right to vote in political elections.
Enfranchisement: The act of granting the right to vote to a person or group.