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Only white, land owning men can vote.

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1790 - Only white men can become citizens and vote/ Naturalization law

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1790 - Only white men can become citizens and vote/ Naturalization law

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1790 Naturalization Law passed and it states that only free white immigrants can become citizens .

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1807-New Jersey women banned from voting

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1807-New Jersey women banned from voting

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where some women and African Americans had been permitted to vote since 1776, changed its laws to allow only tax-paying, white male citizens the right to vote.-Aaliyah

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1848-Activists for ending slavery and women’s rights join together 

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1848-Activists for ending slavery and women’s rights join together 

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Women’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls, NY. Frederick Douglass, a newspaper editor and former slave, attends the event and gives a speech supporting universal voting rights. His speech helps convince the convention to adopt a resolution calling for voting rights for women.

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North Carolina is the last state to get rid of the property ownership as a requirement to vote

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Two women’s rights activists, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, form an organization for white and black women and men dedicated to the goal of universal voting rights. The organization later divides and regroups over disagreements in strategies to gain the vote for women and African Americans.

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After the Civil War the voting right for everyone but woman were now a thing. Black people in any part of the country can vote weather in the North or the South

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Congress passes the Fifteenth Amendment giving African American men the right to vote.

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Susan B. Anthony is arrested for trying to vote in a New York poll

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The Supreme Court rules that Native Americans are not citizens as defined by the 14th Amendment and, thus, cannot vote.

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Women lead voting rights marches through New York and Washington, D.C.

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19th amendment passed which allowed women to vote in elections!

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Supreme Court rules Japanese heritage people to be naturalized citizens but finds "Asian Indians" not to be naturalized.

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1924- Natives become citizens but still cant vote.

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1924- Natives become citizens but still cant vote.

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Again, citizenship granted but voting denied

The Indian Citizenship Act grants citizenship to Native Americans, but many states nonetheless make laws and policies which prohibit Native Americans from voting.

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In 1940 Only 3% of eligible African Americans in the South are registered to vote, and they were able to by taking a literacy tests.

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More than 500 non-violent civil rights marchers are attacked by law enforcement officers while attempting to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to demand the need for African American voting rights.

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Lead by Martin Luther King Jr., over 500 protestors marched from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to demand the need for African American voting rights.

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By the end of 1965, 250,000 new black voters are registered, one third of them by federal examiners.

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There was a legal change after a voter registration march called "walk against fear" and after that more than 4,000 African Americans register to vote.

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26th Amendment passed, granting voting rights to 18-year-olds. The amendment is largely a result of Vietnam War-protests demanding a lowering of the voting age on the premise that people who are old enough to fight are old enough to vote.

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1975- Voting materials in various languages

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1975- Voting materials in various languages

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Voting materials were required to be printed in other languages so that people who didn't know English could also participate.

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2001- Should voting right be taken away from felons?

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2001- Should voting right be taken away from felons?

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Almost 4 million people in prison are not allowed to vote, and some states don't give that right back even if they are out of prison.

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After an election that saw the highest turnout in 100 years, at least 28 states are trying to pass laws that restrict access to voting for future elections.