Answer: A. It lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 so those going to war could vote on the politicians deciding their future.
The 26th Amendment to the United States Constitution ensured that citizens over the age of eighteen had the right to vote in all states. It was proposed by Congress on March 23, 1971 and ratified on July 1, 1971.
The momentum to lower the voting age came with the military draft held during the Vietnam War. The draft conscripted young people older than 18 into the armed forces. The general feeling of the population was that if young people were joining the war, they deserved to have a say in government. A famous slogan that summarized this view was: "old enough to fight, old enough to vote."
A) they needed to feed the population and to trade
