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This version lays out separation of powers within NC government, instills power in the people, and grants them their rights. It also states that all free men of 21 who've lived in any NC county for 12 months that own land can vote for senate and congressmen, basically meaning, white men with land. -
Jim Crow laws started after the ratification of the 13th amendment which ended slavery. With people of the confederate in positions of power, it was very hard for them to actually have their rights secured. They were segregated and oppressed under these laws, which included poll taxes (payment for voting for every adult), literacy tests (testing if a person could read and/or write), and the grandfather clause (if your grandfather could not vote, you cant either), along various other things.
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Passed on Feb. 26, 1869 and ratified Feb. 3, 1870, it gave African American men the right to vote regardless of whether or not they owned land. It also gave congress the right to enforce this, hoping to protect and ensure their right to vote after the Civil War. -
Passed on June 4th and ratified August 18th a year later, this amendment gives all American women the right to vote. This was after a huge line of protests alongside civil rights in the 1800's to finally be thought of. -
As the name implies, this granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in America. Ensuring voting and personal rights. Before this was the Dawes Act which saw the redistribution of land to various tribes after it had been taken. -
The 23rd amendment was proposed on June 16th, 1960 and ratified a year later in March. People in Washington D.C. were given the right to vote. Before, since D.C. is not a state, it was not seen as having those rights. But in 1961, they were given that right. -
This amendment was on August 27, 1962, the 24th amendment states that the poll tax is no longer lawful. As we know, it was made for African Americans and limiting their right to vote. Obviously with the civil rights that have been happening over the course of the timeline, it is inevitable that congress would finally change it. -
This act was signed by Lyndon B. Johnson and it outlawed the practices of the Jim Crow Laws that applied to voting. Literacy tests, poll tax, the grandfather clause, and many more were then on illegal. It was signed after peaceful protests that brought on the talk about voting rights, especially when they were met with the usual violence. The bill was drafted on August 5th of the same year. -
This was proposed on the 23rd of March in 1971. After protests from people being drafted into the Vietnam War saying "old enough to fight, old enough to vote", Pres. Nixon signed it. He said that the people who were being pulled in to fight should be able to vote for who calls for them.