Foundations of the Constitution

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  • constitution is ratified

    Significant because The Constitution went into effect.

  • Religious qualifications dropped

    Last religious prerequisite for voting is eliminated

  • Property requirements dropped

    Property ownership and tax requirements eliminated by 1850

  • 15th Amendment

    African American men get the right to vote

  • 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 of 1965

    The Act established extensive federal oversight of elections administration, providing that states with a history of discriminatory voting could not implement any change affecting voting without first obtaining the approval of the Department of Justice

  • 26th Amendment

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