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Stage 1:Expand Voting Rights
-Religion Qualification quickly disappeared
-No state has had a religion voting test since 1810.
-One by one states began to eliminate property ownership and tax payment qualifications.
-Mid-Century, almost all white adult males could vote in every state. -
Stage 3: Wyoming
-Wyoming had given women the vote in 1869.
-1920 more than half of the states had followed that lead. -
Second Stage: 15th Amendment
-broaden the electorate followed by the civil war.
-15th amendment was intended to protect any citizen from being denied the right to vote because of race or color.
-African Americans were still syystematically prevented from voting, and they remained the largest group of disenfranchised citizens in the nations population. -
19th Amendment
-Prohibited the denial of the right to vote because of sex. -
Stage 4: expansion
-federal legislation american and court decisions focused on securing African Americans a full role in the electoral process in all states.
-Voting rights Act 1965 -
23rd Amendment
-proposed on June 17th, 1960
-added the voters of the District of Columbia to the presidential electoral. -
24th Amendment
-elimated the poll taxas as a condition for voting any federal election -
Voting Rights Act
-racial equality finally became fact in polling booths throughtout the country. -
Stage 5: Expansion
-adoption of the 26th amendment -
26th Amendment
-no state can set a minimum age for voting at more than 18.
-18 and over were given the right to vote
