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first three articles of the constitution are established, it was ratified in 11 states, the first three articles determine the rules and separate powers, bicameral congress, federal judiciary lead by the supreme court and an executive branch lead by the president
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Eligibility to vote is determined by federal and state laws, when the country was founded only white men that owned land could vote, freed slaves could not vote in three states, during the civil war most white men could not vote even if they owned property. Literacy tests, poll taxes, and even religious tests were used in some places and the majority of white women, colored people, and Indians still couldn’t vote,
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Almost all adult males could vote, property tax requirements got dropped.
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says that you cant deny a citizens right to vote based on their race or color
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also known as the Seneca falls convention, Lucretia Coffin Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton talked about different forms of discrimination of women and suffrage and wanted equal rights
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permits citizens in the District of Colombia to vote and vice president as well
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stops both Congress and the states from picking through the right to vote in federal elections on payments of a poll and other taxes
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is the start of national legislation in the United States that didn’t allow discriminate voting that had been in
charge of stopping of African Americans vote in the U.S -
set the legal voting age of 18