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Constitution is ratified
first three articles of the constitution are established, it was ratified in 11 states, the first three articles determine the rules and separate powers, bicameral congress, federal judiciary lead by the supreme court and an executive branch lead by the president -
Religious qualifications dropped
Eligibility to vote is determined by federal and state laws, when the country was founded only white men that owned land could vote, freed slaves could not vote in three states, during the civil war most white men could not vote even if they owned property. Literacy tests, poll taxes, and even religious tests were used in some places and the majority of white women, colored people, and Indians still couldn’t vote, -
Property requirements dropped
Almost all adult males could vote, property tax requirements got dropped. -
15th Amendment
says that you cant deny a citizens right to vote based on their race or color -
19th Amendment
also known as the Seneca falls convention, Lucretia Coffin Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton talked about different forms of discrimination of women and suffrage and wanted equal rights -
23rd Amendment
permits citizens in the District of Colombia to vote and vice president as well -
24th Amendment
stops both Congress and the states from picking through the right to vote in federal elections on payments of a poll and other taxes -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
is the start of national legislation in the United States that didn’t allow discriminate voting that had been in
charge of stopping of African Americans vote in the U.S -
26th Amendment
set the legal voting age of 18