Voting

Five stages of expansion

By ErinBunts

  • First Major Expansion: The stage of struggle to extend voting rights

    First Major Expansion: The stage of struggle to extend voting rights
    States begain to eliminate property ownership and tax payer qualifications. This led to almost all white males being able to vote

  • Second Major Expansion: Effort to broaden electoriate

    Second Major Expansion: Effort to broaden electoriate
    Intended to protect any citezins from being the right to vote because of race or color.

  • Third Major Extention: The 19th Amendment

    Third Major Extention: The 19th Amendment
    The 19th Amendment prohibits the denial the right to vote because of sex

  • Fourth Major Extention

    Fourth Major Extention
    Federal legislation and court decisions focused on securing African Americans. Voting rights Act of 1965

  • Fifth Major Expansion: 26th Amendment

    Fifth Major Expansion: 26th Amendment
    The 26th Amendment provides that no state can set a minimum age older then 18.