Voting Rights Timeline

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    Voting Rights

  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment
    Voting Rights from African American, SC rules literacy test, Grandfather clause unconstitutional, 15th amendment, 19th amendment, Voting Right Act, Freedom Summer. This event leads to another because African American are now living in US and need to change laws such as the literacy test that they need to be taken.
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment
    13th amendment, 19th amendment, 24th amendment, Voting rights from African American, Poll taxes, Literacy test, Freedom Summer. This event is important because they can have more votes around the country to get the chance to choose the president and the vice president.
  • Voting Rights from African American

    Voting Rights from African American
    13th amendment, 15th amendment, 19th amendment, Freedom Summer, Voting Right Act, Poll taxes, 24th amendment. This event lead to increased the voting rights by getting more votes from African Americans, not just one race in the country.
  • Literacy Test Consitutional

    Literacy Test Consitutional
    13th amendment, Voting Right Act, 15th amendment, Grandfather Clause, Freedom Summer, 19th amendment, Voting rights from African American. The Literacy Test event lead to the another event called Grandfather clause is unconstitutional by showing it was okay for voters who had a grandfather that could vote, but then it was not okay for African Americans, weather they slaves as kids and didn't know their grandfather.
  • Grand Father Clause is Unconstitutional

    Grand Father Clause is Unconstitutional
    13th amendment, 15th amendment, 19th amendment, 24th amendment, literacy test, Freedom Summer, Voting Right Act. This event increased the amount of votes from the people because the grandfather clause was not okay for the people who didn't have one or didn't know them, so they get a chance the right to vote without knowing about their grandfather.
  • 19th Amendment/ Women have the right to vote

    19th Amendment/ Women have the right to vote
    13th amendment, Freedom Summer, Voting Rights Act, Literacy Test, 24th amendment, Poll taxes unconstitutional, Grandfather clause unconstitutional. The 19th amendment was an important event because women can have chances to vote the person who they wanted to be the president and the government can also have more voters around the country.
  • Poll Taxes is not okay

    Poll Taxes is not okay
    13th amendment, 15th amendment, 19th amendment, 24th amendment, Voting Right Act, Literacy Test, Grandfather Clause. The Poll taxes was unconstitutional because it increased the voting rights by not paying it.
  • 24th Amendment/ Poll taxes

    24th Amendment/ Poll taxes
    13th amendment, Poll taxes, Literacy Test, 15th amendment, 19th amendment, Freedom Summer, Voting Right Act. This event was important for the country because there are some people who didn't have enough money for the government.