voting rights timeline

By Derek.A.Wheeler

  • constitution is ratified

    all whitw land owning males had right to vote.

  • Religious qualifications dropped

    religin had lost the right to vote

  • Property requirements dropped

    In 1850, porperty ownership and taxes were finally lifted

  • 15th Amendment

    The 15th amendment gave former slaves the right to vote

  • 19th Amendment

    The 19th amendment gave the right to vote for women

  • 23rd Amendment

    The 23rd amendment gave Colubians the right to vote in presidential elections

  • 24th Amendment

    Ban tax in federal elections

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Dr. Martin Lurther King Jr. startes a campaign in Selma, Alabama for voting registration drive

  • 26th Amendment

    The 26th amendment reduce the age of voting form 21 to 18 during the veitiam war