Voting Rights 1776-1866
At the time of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, this group had the right to vote.
What is free, white, male property owners.
In 1869, the U. S. Congress passed the 15th Amendment to the Constitution granting suffrage to this group of men.
What is African American men?
In 1920, the required three-quarters of the states ratified this, granting suffrage to women.
What is the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution?
In 1961, the 23rd Amendment to the United States Constitution gave this group of people the right to vote in presidential elections.
What is residents of the District of Columbia (Washington D.C.)?
This is another name for the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, which requires states to accept voter registration by mail and at any motor vehicle registration site, public buildings such as libraries and schools, and state agencies such as unemployment and welfare services offices.
What is the Motor Voter Act?
Free, white male property owners could vote in 1776, but not if they were members of a certain type of group.
What is certain religious groups?
In 1890, the Indian Naturalization Act was passed. This Act made Native Americans eligible to apply for this.
What is citizenship?
In 1922, the United States Supreme Court case, Takao Ozawa v. United States, denied United States citizenship to persons of Japanese descent, thus, in addition, denying them this.
What is the right to vote?
In 1963, this person led a "March on Washington" to address African American rights, and delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial.
What is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
In 1982, President Ronald Reagan signed the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act. This Act extended voting rights protection to these people.
What is the blind, disabled, and illiterate?
This state was the first to enact a literacy test requirement to vote.
What is Connecticut?
In 1890, several states passed these laws, which allowed only those citizens whose grandfathers had voted before 1870 the right to vote.
What are "Grandfather Clause" laws?
In 1952, the McCarran-Walter Act overturned the 1922 United States Supreme Court decision that denied U. S. Citizenship to persons of Japanese descent - subject to this requirement.
What is Japanese Americans who are born in the United States?
In 1965, This Act was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, declaring that the national government would take immediate action against any unconstitutional acts that limit minority group voting rights. This Act also declared that literacy tests are unconstitutional.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
In 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act required that election workers and polling sites provide this.
What is services to support disabled citizens?
In 1798, the original number of years to live in the U.S. before being able to register to vote was 14. In 1902, the residency requirement was reduced to this number of years.
What is 5 years?
In 1915, the use of "grandfather clause" laws to deny African American citizens the right to vote was deemed unconstitutional by one this branch of the U. S. government.
What is the United States Supreme Court?
In 1924, the federal Indian Citizenship Act gave the right of citizenship to Native Americans who were born in the United States. Individual states, however, could still deny Indians this.
What is the right to vote?
In 1968, Shirley Chisolm, from New York, became the first African American woman to do this.
What is, be elected to the United States Congress?
In 2002, this Act provided funds to states to replace old and outdated voting machines and to improve elections procedures.
What is the Help America Vote Act?
This entire ethnicity of Americans was denied the right to vote in 1790.
What is Asian Americans?
In 1890, numerous states enacted these tests as a voting requirement, excluding uneducated whites from voting.
What are literacy tests?
In 1940, Southern states recorded this percentage of African American citizens actually registered to vote.
What is 3 percent?
In 1971, the 26th Amendment to the United States Constitution granted this group of Americans the right to vote.
What is 18-year-old Americans?
In 2009, the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act allowed military and non-military American citizens to receive voter registration cards and absentee ballots, and to submit ballots electronically or by mail, if these American citizens were doing this.
What is serving in foreign countries?