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Wen first created the constitution only allowed land owning white men to vote while some states even put restrictions on religions with tests as each state had the right to decide voting requirements -
Implemented to allow those from out of America to vote but states still decided how voting took place and was later reapealed in 1795
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During the 1820s the restrictions were lifted on the requirement of needing property to vote while some states never had it in the first place as each state set it's own restrictions
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Passed by the Senate on June 8, 1866, and ratified two years later, on July 9, 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States," including formerly enslaved people, and provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws.”
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Granted those of African American descent to vote
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Allowed voters to cast direct votes for U.S. Senators. Prior to its passage, Senators were chosen by state legislatures.
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Finally passed the right for all women to vote -
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. -
Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, done to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -
Any American citizen 18 years or older was given the right to vote because you can be drafted at 18 and yet not allowed to have a say. -
With Ex-President Donald Trump's a supposed rumour about their being voter fraud as the latest election has caused many states to be in a tizzy and cracking down on restrictive laws that make voting more difficult with need for multiple forms of identification and restriction on mail in ballots having less of them and a stricter time frame. Causing a struggle between democrats and republicans making laws that lessen restrictions and vice versa to stop each other.