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The right to vote in the United States was restricted to white male property owners.
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No state has had a religious test for voting.
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American Suffereage first demanded the right to vote in 1848 at a meeting in Seneca Falls, NY.
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Connecticut adopted the first literacy qualifications.
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Efforts to lower the voting age to 18 nationwide began.
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In 1964, eliminated the poll tax as a condition for voting in any federal election.
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The 24th Amendment, ratified in 1964, out-lawed the poll tax, or any other tax, as a condition for voting in any federal election.
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Only four states had put the voting age to 21.
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Voting age is changed from 21 to 18.
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18-20 yr olds, 58% of that age group registered to vote, and 48.4% of them reported that they did vote that year.
