Voting Rights

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    Voting Rights

  • 13th Amendment

  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment
    The 13th amendment is important because it free'd African Americans from slavery and gave them equal rights as everybody else. It's important because everybody was born equal and therefore everyone should be treated equal.
  • 15th amendment

  • 15th amendment

    15th amendment
    I think the 15th amendment could be lead to the 19th amendment which allows women to also vote.I think that the 15th amendment will lead up to that because eventually we will need more voters that aren't only males, we will need a variety of voters.
  • Laws to take voting rights from African-Americans

  • Laws to take voting rights from African-Americans

    Laws to take voting rights from African-Americans
    This event is important because it isn't fair to take away someones voting rights.Its important because everyone should be able to have a say and put in their own opinion.
  • Supreme court rules that literacy tests are constitutional

  • Supreme court rules that literary tests are constitutional

    Supreme court rules that literary tests are constitutional
    This event is important because they're letting people vote but to be able to vote you have to be able to pass a literacy test.The test is important because it makes sure you're capable of voting.
  • Supreme court declares "Grandfather Clause" unconstitutional

  • Supreme court rules "Grandfather Clause" unconstitutional

    Supreme court rules "Grandfather Clause" unconstitutional
    This event is important cause it helps more people to be able to fairly vote.It's also important because when the clause was made that was when most grandfathers weren't aloud to vote so that meant they couldn't vote, but now it doesn't matter cause the clause was passed as unconstitutional.
  • 19th amendment

  • 19th amendment

    19th amendment
    The 19th amendment could lead to increased voting because not only males can do it, women can too. That's important because in democracy you don't want a little variety to vote you want everyone to do so, too get their opinion; it shows what people want to happen in their life.
  • Supreme court rules that poll taxes are constitutional

  • 24th amendment

  • Freedom Summer

  • 24th amendment

    24th amendment
    The 24th amendment is important because with poll taxes not everyone was able to vote because not everyone had enough to pay. So the 24th amendment helped more people get to vote and show their opinion.
  • Voting rights act