Voting Rights
After American colonists were free from Great Britain in 1776, the Voting Rights were not directly addressed in any constitutions or articles. As time went on, constitution had changed a lot. Voting Rights started to be extended to more citizens, enabling more people to participate in government.There were four main revolutions during the development of Voting Rights. The first one was in 1789, some states started to have male taxpayers votes, yet most states did not allow African Americans or males under the age of 21 to vote. African Americans had the voting rights since 1870. The Fifteenth Amendment to Constitution guaranteed African Americans the rights to vote. The third revolution was in 1920, when women were the sponsors of the revolution. And finally the Nineteenth Amendment allowed women to vote. Four years after the revolution, voting rights, as well as the citizenship, was extended to Native Americans. The final revision of the voting rights was in 1971, the Twenty-sixth Amendment. It stated that citizens “eighteen years of age of older” have the rights to vote.
African Americans voting in 1870 
Women trying to receive the rights to vote in 1920
A 1920 Voting Pin
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