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Most states extended the right to vote to all white men, regardless of money or property.
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Of the new west, nine became states by 1840. They extended the right to vote to all white males over the age of 21. Kentucky was the first state (admitted to the Union in 1792) that extended the right to vote to all white males in the state.
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A group of abolitionists gathered in Seneca Falls, New York to discuss women's rights.
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The right to vote appears only after the civil war. Before this, it was not listed in the U.S constitution. The right to vote is not mentioned in the Bill of Rights.
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African-Americans voted in northern areas where it was easier to vote under the fifteenth amendment.
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The 14th amendment extends the constitution's protection to all male citizens.
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The National American Women Suffrage Association was formed.
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The 15th amendment was ratified. It was considered one of the most far-fetching pieces of civil rights legislation in U.S. history.
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Women rights to vote was ratified in most states.
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More than eight million women voted in the election.
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The 19th amendment to the constitution was ratified, enfranchising all American women and declaring for the first time that they deserve the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
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Drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights affirmed the right to "universal sufferage" as a basic right.
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African-Americans in the south were "enfranchised" for the most part.
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After President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the presidency.
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Poll taxes became illegal for the Federal Government.
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The act that brought large numbers of African-Americans into the political process was the Voting Rights Act. It was established 100 years after the ratification of the fifteenth amendment. This aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African-Americans from voting.
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People peacefully protested in a Selma to Montgomery march. They were met by Alabama state troopers who attacked them with tear gas and beatings.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson began investigating and holding meetings to look at how the African-American citizens were being treated.
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The Voting Rights Bill passed with a 77-19 vote in the United States Senate.
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The Voting Rights Bill passed with a 333-65 vote in the House of Representatives.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Bill. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights activists joined. The act banned the use of literacy tests, provided for federal oversight of voter registration in areas where less than 50 percent of the non-white population had not registered to vote, and authorized the U.S. attorney general to investigate the use of poll taxes in state and local elections.
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Poll taxes become illegal in State governments.
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African-American voting turnouts increase to 59% in Mississippi.
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Despite our democratic views, we did not have Universal Suffrage in the United States of America until 1970.
