Voting Rights
This document, effective in 1789, initially granted states the power to set their own voting requirements.
What is the Constitution of the United States?
This financial requirement forced people to pay to vote and was often used to suppress minority voters.
What is a poll tax?
This amendment, ratified in 1920, gave women across the U.S. the right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
This is the current minimum voting age for U.S. citizens.
What is 18 years old?
This president signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
The 14th Amendment, ratified in this year, granted citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States.
What is 1868?
This clause provided an exception for many white men who couldn't pay a poll tax or pass a literacy test.
What is the Grandfather Clause?
This Western state was the first to give women full voting rights in 1890.
What is Wyoming?
Before the 26th Amendment, this was the standard voting age in most states.
What is 21 years old?
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 banned this type of test that was often used to prevent minorities from voting.
What are literacy tests?
This amendment, ratified in 1870, prohibited denying the right to vote based on race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This type of election, established by the Democratic Party in Georgia in 1900, prevented African Americans from voting in crucial primary elections.
What is a White Primary?
The women's suffrage movement gained traction nationally during this century.
What is the 19th century?
This Southern state was the first to lower its voting age to 18, using the slogan "Old enough to fight, old enough to vote".
What is Georgia?
This amendment, ratified in 1964, prohibited Congress and states from using a poll tax as a means to access a ballot.
What is the 24th Amendment?
Initially, voting rights were generally limited to this small percentage of the U.S. population.
What is 6%
This system, established in Southern states after the Civil War, permitted racial segregation and disenfranchised blacks and poor whites.
What is Jim Crow?
Even after the 19th Amendment, these women still faced significant barriers to voting in many states.
Who are African American women?
The 26th Amendment, lowering the voting age to 18 nationwide, was ratified during this war.
What is the Vietnam War?
This famous civil rights march in 1965 helped catalyze support for comprehensive voting rights legislation.
What is the Selma to Montgomery march?
In the 1840 presidential election, approximately this percentage of adult white males voted.
What is 80%
Between 1920 and 1930, this shockingly low percentage of eligible black voters in Georgia were able to cast a ballot.
What is less than 3%?
After the 19th Amendment, these laws were extended to black women, making it nearly impossible for them to vote in certain states.
What are poll taxes, literacy tests, and residency requirements?
This amendment, ratified in 1971, gave all citizens 18 and older the right to vote.
What is the 26th Amendment?
The enforcement of poll taxes, literacy tests, and these actions remained significant barriers to most black voters in southern states until the 1960s.
What are threats of violence and intimidation?