To: gronieel2 who wrote (990848 ) 12/29/2016 1:07:47 PM From: James Seagrove 1 RecommendationRecommended By
Respond to You've come a long way baby...1790: The Naturalization Act of 1790 allows white men born outside of the United States to become citizens with the right to vote.1792: Beginning of the abolition of property qualifications for white men, from 1792 (Kentucky) to 1856 (North Carolina) during the periods of Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democracy .1868: Citizenship is guaranteed to all persons born or naturalized in the United States , setting the stage for future expansions to voting rights.1870: Non-white men and freed slaves are guaranteed the right to vote by the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution . However, for many years, some states were very successful at suppressing this vote (see Jim Crow Laws ).1887: 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.1913: 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.1920: 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.1924: 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.1943: Chinese immigrants given the right to citizenship and the right to vote by the Magnuson Act .1961: Residents of Washington, D.C. are granted the right to vote in U.S. Presidential Elections by the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution .1964: Tax payment prohibited from being used as a condition for voting in federal elections by the Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution .1965: Protection of voter registration and voting for racial minorities, later applied to language minorities, is established by the Voting Rights Act of 1965 . This has also been applied to correcting discriminatory election systems and districting.1966: Tax payment and property requirements for voting are prohibited in all U.S. elections by the Supreme Court in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections .1971: Adults aged 18 and 21 are granted the right to vote by the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution . This was enacted in response to Vietnam War protests, which argued that soldiers who were old enough to fight for their country should be granted the right to vote.1986: 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 .
