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This is the first time men are able to have influence on the creation of laws.

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The House of Burgesses consisted of elected representatives. People now had the ability to choose who represented them in the legislative body.

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Limitations on Colonial Voting (Colonial Era)

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Limitations on Colonial Voting (Colonial Era)

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The only people that were allowed to vote were white men that owned land. This meant that everyone else: women, poorer people, and slaves, were not able to vote yet.

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For a temporary period, women were given suffrage, which expanded the diversity of people who had the ability to vote.

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Pennsylvania abolishes all property qualifications for voting and holding office for white men post Revolution (Post-Revolutionary Era)

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Pennsylvania abolishes all property qualifications for voting and holding office for white men post Revolution (Post-Revolutionary Era)

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Meeting the qualifications for voting and holding office for white men became easier because they didn't need to have land in order to vote, which granted more white men suffrage.

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Jacksonian Democracy/Evolution of universal white manhood suffrage (1830s)

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Jacksonian Democracy/Evolution of universal white manhood suffrage (1830s)

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Many men were advocating for the states to abolish property requirements for voting. The desire of universal white men suffrage gave even more white men in the country suffrage, but women and African-Americans still didn't have as much voting ability.

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The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention in the United States, which included the launch of the women's suffrage movement.

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The 15th Amendment granted suffrage to African American men. Despite some states previously allowing free African American men to vote, now all of the African American possess that right.

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The 19th Amendment granted suffrage to women. With the efforts from the women's suffrage movement, all American women now have the right to vote.

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Indian Citizenship Act/Snyder Act (1924)

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Indian Citizenship Act/Snyder Act (1924)

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The Snyder act gave full U.S. citizenship and suffrage to indigenous Americans. An issue that would still be present is that some of these indigenous populations still wouldn't be able to vote due to states continuing to have prerequisites that would prevent them from being able to vote.

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Magnuson Act/Chinese Exclusion Repeal Act (1943)

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Magnuson Act/Chinese Exclusion Repeal Act (1943)

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The Magnuson Act worked towards more people having suffrage by granting Chinese people this ability. Even though not all races still weren't granted suffrage, this is the first time Asians have been able to vote in the United States.

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Immigration and Nationality Act/McCarran-Walter Act (1952)

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Immigration and Nationality Act/McCarran-Walter Act (1952)

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The Immigration and Nationality Act granted more Asian immigrants visas and citizenships, which widened the restrictions to allow voting for Asian immigrants. This diversifies the voting demographic of Asians in the United States from mostly Chinese-American voters.

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Maine Extending Voting Rights to Indigenous Americans in Reservations (1954)

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Maine Extending Voting Rights to Indigenous Americans in Reservations (1954)

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Even though Indigenous Americans were given the right to vote from the Snyder Act (1924), some states still prevented these people from voting. Some Indigenous Americans that were living in reservations were still barred from voting due to people seeing them as citizens of a tribe, not the United States. Extending voting rights to these people allows even more Indigenous Americans to be able to vote.

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The Twenty Fourth Amendment led to more economic diversity within the voters of the United States. This because with the abolishment of poll taxes, voting for poorer populations became easier because they didn't have to spend any money to vote.

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The Voting Rights act abolished discriminatory voting practices that were adopted after the Civil War that prevented people, specifically uneducated African Americans, from being able to vote. This eased the prerequisites to voting, which led to more people given the ability to vote.

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The Twenty Sixth Amendment led to a slightly wider age gap within the voters of the United States. People are now able to vote starting at a younger age, which gives more of an accurate display of what the newer generations want from the country.

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Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (1986)

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Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (1986)

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The Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act gives overseas citizens and servicemembers the ability to vote through absentee ballots. Overseas U.S. citizens and servicemembers are still citizens of the United States even if they aren't in the country, which is why they should still be given the ability to vote.

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Even though poll taxes have been removed, poorer people, especially homeless people, still struggled with being able to vote due to not having a permanent living address. The Help America Vote Act helps these populations by easing the requirements to vote so that they don't have to provide an address to vote.

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California's Senate Bill 589 allowed citizens that are deemed "mentally incompetent" the right to vote, which expands the number of states that these people are able to vote in.

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The Freedom to Vote Act allows people that have been convicted of an offense to still be able to vote. Even though these people have committed crimes, those crimes, especially if they're from the far past, should not take away people's rights to vote.