history of voting rights

By jonathanmoore

  • no state had a religious test for voting

  • property and paying taxes were no longer qualifications for voting

  • the fifteenth amendment was passed

    it said that citizens could not be denied that right to vote base on race and color

  • the nineteenth amendment was passed

    it protected the right of women to vote

  • the 23 amendment

    added the voters of Washington D.C.

  • 24 amendment

    took away the pool box

  • 26 amendment

    made 18 the official voting age for the county