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Snail Paced Progress of Voting Rights in America

By mmaher13
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    Voting Rights

    My timeline is focused on the slow pace Americans have gained voting rights in the United States. I also tried to portray the obstacles minorities have had to overcome in order to get the right to vote.
  • NJ/VA Plan and Electoral College

    NJ/VA Plan and Electoral College

    slaves count at 3/5 person
    electoral college established to elect president
  • White, Landowning Men Can Vote

    White, Landowning Men Can Vote

    no one else!!
  • NH Eliminates Property Ownership Qualification

    NH Eliminates Property Ownership Qualification

  • CT Makes Literacy Test

    CT Makes Literacy Test

    Connecticut establishes literacy test to keep Irish-Catholics from voting
  • Civil War 1861-1865

    Civil War 1861-1865

  • 15th Amendment and Civi Right Act

    15th Amendment and Civi Right Act

    Civil Right Act grant all all natural born citizenship
    Some black men now have right to vote
  • Poll Tax in Florida

    Poll Tax in Florida

    prohibits poor from voting (often black)
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese cannot vote or take part in government activity
  • 19th Amendment and Womens Suffrage

    19th Amendment and Womens Suffrage

    Women get the right to vote! (Finally!)
  • DC Gets Vote

    DC Gets Vote

    Citizens of Washington DC can now vote
  • Voting Rights Act

    Voting Rights Act

    Voting barriers such as poll taxes and literacy tests outlawed
  • 26th Amendment

    26th Amendment

    Voting age lowered to 18
  • Gore/Bush Vote Shuffle

    Gore/Bush Vote Shuffle

    Bush wins very controversial election where there was supposed to be a re-count
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    Early Voting, Voter ID Laws, Mail in Ballots etc

    also Federal Voting Standards and Procedures Act to streamline election process