Voting RIghts in the United States

By alenap1234

  • Constitution is ratified

    all white land owning males could vote

  • Religious qualificatiions dropped

    white land owning males can vote, whatever their religion

  • Property requirements dropped

    white men without property could vote

  • 15th Amendment

    gave former slaves the right to vote and to all males regardless of their race

  • 19th Amendment

    women allowed to vote

  • 23rd Amendment

    Granting District of Columbia the right to vote in Presidential Election

  • 24th Amendment

    Makes Congress or states unable to put a poll tax that stops people from voting

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    banned racial discrimination in local or federal election

  • 26th Amendment

    prevented the states of government from raising the voting age

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