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Constitution Ratified
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Religious qualifications dropped
Religion no longer being an aspect you must posess. -
Property requirements dropped
Property ownership and tax requirements eliminated by 1850. Almost all adult white males could vote. -
15th Amendment
Granted African americans to vote -
19th Amendment
Ended womens political sufferage. -
23rd Amendment
restricts the district to the number of Electors of the least populous state -
24th amendment
prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
It eliminated various devices, such as literacy tests, that had traditionally been used to restrict voting by black people. -
26th Amendment
prevented the government from raising the voting age above 18.