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Voting Rights
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13th Amendment
This event is important becasue this event was the event that abolished slavery. -
15th Amendment
This event is importaned because it gave all males the right to vote. The race did not matter. -
Laws to take voting right from African-Americans
This event is important becasue souther states tried to take away the voting rights to Africxan-Americans. -
Supreme Court rules the literacvy test are constitutuional.
This event is important because taking the test and doing good would mean you could vote. -
Supreme Court declares "Grandfather Clause" uncostitutional.
This event is important because it made it so that you could vote even if your grandparents where slaves. -
19th Amendment
This event is important because it gave the right for women to vote. -
Supreme Court rules that poll taxes are constitutional
This even is important becaue it was a law made sayng that to vote you had to pay money. -
24th Amendment
This event is important because it outlaws the law that says you have to pay to vote. -
Freedom Summer
This event important because it was a law that was attempting to make African-Americansable to vote in Mississippi. -
Voting Rights Act
tHis event is important because is bans all racial and ethnic discrimination in elections.
