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In 1789, the right to vote was generally restricted to white male property owners
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The 15th Amendment was ratified in 1870 was intended to protect any citizen from denied the to vote because of race or color
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The 19th amendment gave women the right to vote
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The Snyder Act of 1924 admitted Native Americans born in the U.S. to full U.S. citizenship. Though the Fifteenth Amendment, passed in 1870, granted all U.S. citizens the right to vote regardless of race, it wasn't until the Snyder Act that Native Americans could enjoy the rights granted by this amendment.
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a federal voting rights bill, was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875
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Added the voters of the District of Columbia to the president electorate
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Eliminated the poll tax (and any other tax) as a condition for voting in any federal election
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 finally outlawed exclusionary practices that “deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color.”
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It provides that no State can set the minimum age for voting at more than 18 years of age. In other words, those 18 and over were given the right to vote by this amendment