Issues voting rights

Voting Rights Timeline

By Ellentaylor17
  • First Major Expansion: The stage of struggle to extend voting rights

    First Major Expansion: The stage of struggle to extend voting rights

    States begain to eliminate property ownership and tax payer qualifications. By mid-century, almost all white adult males could vote in every State.
  • Second Major Expansion: Effort to broaden electoriate followed by the Civil war

    Second Major Expansion: Effort to broaden electoriate followed by the Civil war

    15th Amendment was ratified for all races right to vote
  • Third Major Extention: Women's right to vote

    Third Major Extention: Women's right to vote

    The 19th Amendment prohibits the denial the right to vote because of sex
  • Fourth Major Extention: Federal legislation and court decisions focused on securing African Americans.

    Fourth Major Extention: Federal legislation and court decisions focused on securing African Americans.

    Voting rights Act of 1965. The 23rd amendment passed in 1961, that gave the district of Columbia the right to vote. The 24th amendment retified in 1964 eliminated Poll Tax!
  • 26th Amendment

    26th Amendment

    Voting age 18 and up!