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Six new western states gave the vote to all adult white males
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Only men with property were allowed to vote
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A convention was held Seneca Falls, New York that launced a national movement by women
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Only six of the thirty-four states allowed freedmen to vote.
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The U.S supreme court said that grandfather clauses were unconstitutional. some states,continued to use the literacy tests and poll taxes untill the 1960's
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more and more people began to demand that the federal government protect the right of african americans to vote
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the right to vote in national elections
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the law protected the right to vote for all citizens