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First Stage: All white males are able to vote
Before this time you had to be a white male property owner to be able to vote. After 1810 most states dergarded this requirement and allowed all WHITE males to vote. African American males were still not able to vote. -
Second Stage: 15th Amendment was Ratified
Even though the 15th Amendment was suppoe to end race-based voting , women still did not have a say in government. THe 15th Amendment had little effect until after the civil rights movement. -
Third Stage: 19th Amenment: women's right to vote
In 1920 after years of battleing the govenremnt, women finally received the right to vote. However there were a few states like wyoming that has already given women the right to vote way beofore the 19th Amendment. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
After the 15th Amendment was set into motion not everyone followed the Amendment. Many states found ways to restric African American from voting. The Civil Rights Act of 1957 set up the United States Civil Rights Comission. -
23rd Amendment: D.C. Can vote
Before the 23rd amendment people living in the nations capital could not vote i any elections. They could not travel to Maryland or Virginia to vote, this was unfair and this is the reason for the 23rd Amendment. -
"I Have a Dream speech" Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. makes his famous speech at the end of the famous 1963 March to Washington. -
24th Amendment: Elimination of the Poll Tax
Before this amendment was passed voters had to pay a poll tax before they were allowed to vote. This restricted many poor people from voting. Many of the people that could not pay this tax were African Americans. Poll taxing was one of the ways that many southern states got away with restricting African Americans from voting. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Continued a pattern of earlier laws by relieing on Judicial action to overcome racial barriers. Also relied on actions called injunctions that limit the perfomance of some act by a privite individual or by a public official such as decrimation in the workplace. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Finally made the 15th amendment an effective part of the Constitution by applyng to all elections any where in the country. This Act made it illegal to hace any sort of tests or taxes to restric people from votin. -
26th Amendment: Your 18, you can vote!
The 26th Amendment adopted in 1971 says that no state can set the minimum age for voting at more than 18 years of age. Anyone over the age of 18 can vote, but a state can set the voting age less then eight teen. -
Hill v. Stone
A Texas Law stated that only persons with property could vote and this was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1975. The court foud that drwing of such distinction for voting purposes was prohibited by the 14th Amendment.
