Voting timeline

  • 1776 North Carolina Constitution

    1776 North Carolina Constitution

    This allowed for white men to vote on a local level.
  • Seneca Falls Convention

    Seneca Falls Convention

    This was the first womens rights movements. Held in New York.
  • 15th admendment

    15th admendment

    This made it where you couldnt keep people from voting based of race, color, or for being a freed slave.
  • Jim Crow Laws

    Jim Crow Laws

    This made it nearly imposible for freed slaves and their childern to vote. Poll taxes: most african americans had very little money preventing them from voteing. Literacy tests: most african americans couldnt read or write. Grandfather clase: if your grandfather voted then you could but no african americans grandfather could vote.
  • 17th Admendment

    17th Admendment

    This gave the current term limits for senetors and base how they would be elected. aswell as made it to where the people directly elect senetors.
  • 19th admendment

    19th admendment

    Made it where eligible citizens could vote regardless of gender.
  • Indian Citizenship Act

    Indian Citizenship Act

    This gave the "Indians"(Native Americans) full citizenship.
  • 23rd Admendment

    23rd Admendment

    Gave resedents of the district of columbia the right to vote for presedent.
  • 24th Admendment

    24th Admendment

    This made poll taxes illegal.
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Made it so that elections at local levels were protected from poll taxes and literacy tests.
  • 26th Admendment

    26th Admendment

    lower the legal voting age to 18 from 21 on the basis that if you were old egnough to fight then you are old egnought to vote.