Voting Rights

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    Voting Rights

  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment
    This event leads to increased voting rights because it freed the slaves which led to them being treated as equal citizens.
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment
    This is important because it was the very start of the civil rights movement and the controversy over African American voting rights.
  • Laws to take voting rights away from African Americans

    Laws to take voting rights away from African Americans
    This event lead to increased voting right because it is what threatened voting rights in the first place.