voting rights

religious voting

1826

they took away owning property and paying taxes were no longer to vote

1850

the fifteenth amendment

1870

the 15th amendment granted African American men the right to vote.

the nineteenth amendment

1920

granted women the right to vote.

the twenty-third amendment

1961

to the United States Constitution extends the right to vote in the presidential election to citizens residing in the District of Columbia by granting the District electors in the Electoral College, as if it were a state.

the twenty-fourth amendment

1962

took away poll tax

the twenty-sixth amendment

1971

to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from using age as a reason for denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States who are at least eighteen years old.