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States get the power to set voting requirements.
The Constitution grants the states the power to set voting requirements. Generally, states limited this right to property-owning or tax-paying white males -
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History of Voting Rights
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Free Black men lose right to vote.
Free black males lose the right to vote in several Northern states including in Pennsylvania and in New Jersey. -
No more property qualifications.
Abolition of property qualifications for white men -
Citizenship granted to Native Americans
Citizenship is granted to Native Americans who are willing to disassociate themselves from their tribe by the Dawes Act, making them technically eligible to vote. -
Voters can Elect Senators.
Direct election of Senators, established by the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, gave voters rather than state legislatures the right to elect senators -
Women get the right to vote.
Women are guaranteed the right to vote by the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In practice, the same restrictions that hindered the ability of non-white men to vote now also applied to non-white women. -
All Native Americans granted Citizenship.
All Native Americans are granted citizenship and the right to vote, regardless of tribal affiliation. By this point, approximately two thirds of Native Americans were already citizens -
Poll Tax Prohibited
Poll Tax payment prohibited from being used as a condition for voting in federal elections by the Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. -
No Wealth Requirements.
Tax payment and wealth requirements for voting in state elections are prohibited by the Supreme Court in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections. -
Military Overseas are granted the right to vote.
United States Military and Uniformed Services, Merchant Marine, other citizens overseas, living on bases in the United States, abroad, or aboard ship are granted the right to vote by the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act. -
No more appealing to Attorney General.
Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. Section 4(b) states that if states or local governments wants to change their voting laws, they must appeal to the Attorney General