Multiple choice

Which of these contributed to the ratification of this amendment?

  1. race riots in American cities

  2. efforts of Civil Rights leaders

  3. protests against the draft

  4. media coverage of the Watergate scanda
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C Correct answer
Explanation

The 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age to 18, was heavily influenced by the argument that if young men were old enough to be drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, they were old enough to vote.

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