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Why it is Important
All of these events are important to us now because it gives everyone equal rights to vote today. Without all of these events happening there would still be only rich, white men able to vote. Luckily, women and African Americans fought for their rights to vote and we can have that now. We do not have to pay poll taxes or take a literacy test. -
1776 North Carolina Constitution
The voters of each county elected one person for the Senate and two for the house regardless of the population or place. There were only six select places that could elect an elect an extra member to the house. The constitution mainly supported the landowners. -
Seneca Falls Convenion
This is known as the birthplace of feminism. It was the leading women's rights convention. At the conference, various activists and leaders affirmed that they were battling for justice and suffrage. -
15th Amendment
This passage says that the federal government and the states from denying a citizen the right to vote based on their color, race, or previous servitude. -
Jim Crow Laws
The laws were a collection of state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation. There were an annual poll tax and literacy test. -
17th Amendment
This is the amendment where there are two senators for every state and they are in office for six years. They are also elcted bye the eligible people from that state. -
19th Amendment
This amendment was made and granted women the right to vote. It gave women suffrage and it provided men and women with equal voting rights. -
Indian Citizenship Act
The government grants citizenship on each Native Americans born within the territory of the country. -
23rd Amendment
This allows people to vote for the presidential electors. These are called the electoral college which then votes for the president and vice president. -
24th Amendment
They made it so that poll tax was not a condition. African Americans had just gotten over the literacy test, but they still had to deal with poll taxes. A lot of African Americans did not have that much money and this allowed them to get over having to pay taxes to vote, meaning more could vote. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This was made to try and allow African Americans to vote. After the problem with the protest and the people getting treated badly, Johnson decided that there needed to be a change. -
26th Amendment
This amendment stated that people 18 and older can vote. The people said, during the Vietnam War, that if kids were old enough to fight than they were old enough to vote.
