Voting Rights in the Unite States

By baltazarcalvillo

  • Constitution is ratified

    -All white, land owning males could vote.

  • Religious qualifications dropped

    The last prerequisite of religion for voting, get eliminated.

  • Property requirements dropped

    Property ownership and tax requirements are eliminated by 1850. Almost every adult white males could vote.

  • 15th Amendment

    The 15th Amendment passes. It gives former slaves the right to vote and it protects the voting rights of the adult male citizens of any race.

  • 19th Amendment

    This amenment guarrantees womans suffrage.

  • 23rd Amendment

    This amenment allows voters from the District of Colombia to participate in presidential elections.

  • 24th Amendment

    This Amendment bans the poll tax as a requirement for voting in federal elections.

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Martin Luther King goes on a drive in Alabama, during the civil war movement.

  • 26th Amendment

    This Amendment sets the legal age to vote at age 18.