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1776 Constitution.
It was the first constitution after the declaration of Independence. It sets up the democracy, such as the 3 branches of government. -
Seneca Falls convention
This created the equality between men and women. -
15th Amendment
The right to vote for citizens should not be away on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
This amendment basically gives black, and mixed people their right to vote, without white men interfering with it. This changes voting by adding some diversity to the vote, as well as changing the monogamous line of candidates voted for by the homogeneous group of voters as before. -
17th Amendment
This amendment sets up the Senate and and how the candidates are elected, as well as how long they serve in the Senate.
This changed how the Senators are elected, it also sets how many senators we can have. -
19th Amendment
This says that no one can be denied the right to vote on account of sex.
Basically this gave women the right to vote, which changed the candidates that got elected due to women having different views on the way the government should be run. This also gave women more power since they have a say in the government. -
Indian Citizenship Act
Any Native American within the territory of the United States has citizenship.
This act makes it to where the Native Americans can vote because they are a citizen. this changes voting because the Native Americans are going to add a different view into the political nominations. -
Voting during Jim Crow
After fighting in WW2, the black men who came back were not aloud to vote.
This changed the government because yet again blacks were not aloud to vote yet again, even though they fought for our country. -
23rd Amendment
Congress was aloud to select an area of ten miles square to serve as the permanent seat of the federal government.
This granted the citizens in Washington D.C to vote in presidential elections. -
24th Amendment
A citizen of age can not be denied the right to vote on account of not being able to pay a poll tax.
This amendment makes it to where poorer people who would typically not vote due to lack of money vote. This changed voting because the poor/ middle to lower class can be represented in the government as well. -
Voting Rights Act
This took away poll taxes, literacy tests, and the grandfather clause. These were all put into place to prevent blacks from voting since they were recently aloud to do so.
This changed the government because even though they were aloud to vote blacks had other barriers put in their way to prevent it, this stopped that. -
26th Amendment
This allowed anyone over 18 to vote, which lowered the voting age.
By doing this they opened the voting to a wider variety of people, and getting more of a variety of views. This was another way that the selection of candidates changed.
