Amendments to the Constitution Timeline

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  • Constitution is ratified

    It took 10 months for the first nine states to approve the Constitution.
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    Constitutional Amendments

  • Religious qualifications dropped

    White, land owning males, regardless of religion can vote.

  • Property requirements dropped

    Property ownership and tax requirements eliminated.

  • 15th Amendment

    granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

  • 19th Amendment

    prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex.

  • 23rd Amendment

    permits citizens in the District of Columbia to vote for Electors for President and Vice President

  • 24th Amendment

    prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.

  • Voting Rights Act

    utlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S.

  • 26th Amendment

    barred the states or federal government from setting a voting age higher than eighteen.