voting

  • The first Presidential election

  • Period: to

    Only white men were allowed to vote

  • Women's start for suffrage

  • The fifteenth amendment is ratified giving free African American men the right to vote

  • Congress passes the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote.

  • President Johnson passed a law that outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.

  • Protests surrounding the age at which you can vote due the the age at which you are drafted for war specifically Vietnam.

  • The 26th Amendment is ratified and the voting age is lowered to 18.

  • During the Presidential election between President Trump and President elect Biden there was multiple report that there has been illegal voting and disruption of mail in ballots.

  • The Supreme Court rejects President Trump's challenge regarding the 2020 election.