voting rights

voting rights

Period: Dec 2, 1850 to Dec 2, 2000

13 amendment

Dec 2, 1865

This amendment i important because Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

15 amendment

Dec 2, 1869

this amendment is important because the right of the citizens of the united states is to vote shall not be denied or abridged.

laws to take voting rights from African Americans

Dec 4, 1896

This amendment is importante because Americans American can separate but equal.

Supreme court rules that literacy tests are constitutional.

Dec 4, 1898

This amendement s important because Supreme Court case that provisions of the state constitution that set requirements for voter registration. in the state's requirements for voters to pass a literacy test and pay poll taxes

Supreme court declares 'Grandfather Clause' unconstitutional.

Dec 4, 1915

This amendment is importante because the It found grandfather clause exemptions to literacy tests to be unconstitutional.

amendment 19

Dec 5, 1920

The 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote, is formally adopted 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the amendment,

supreme court rules that poll taxes are constitutional.

Dec 5, 1937

Poll taxes appeared in southern states after Reconstruction as a measure to prevent African Americans from voting, and had been held to be constitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States in the 1937 decision Breedlove v. Suttles.

amendment 24

Dec 5, 1964

This amendment is importante because you need to vote