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In Post-Revolutionary War America, most voting was restricted to white, property-owning, tax-paying males. However, throughout 1820 to 1840, many states eased their restricitions on voiting, and by 1840, all but three states allowed all white males to vote.

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Up until the civil war, African American men and all women did not have any voting rights. When the 15th Amendment was passed in 1870, Black men were given the right to vote. The 15th Amendment protected this right by stating that the right to vote in the United States shall not be abridged on the account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

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The 19th Amendment granted all women in the United States the right to vote. This amendment was heavily pushed for by suffragists and claims that the right to vote shall not be abridged on the basis of sex.

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Prior to the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, Native American treatment was mainly based on the Dawes Severality Act, which allowed the U.S. government to break up tribal lands. However, with the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, it was decided that all Native American individuals born in the U.S. were given citizenship. However, the right to vote was still governed by state law until 1954, meaning that some states still barred Native Americans from the right to vote.

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The McCarren Walter Act of 1952 granted all Asian-Americans citizenship and the right to vote. Additionally, this law upheld the national origins quotas set by the Immigration Act of 1924, however, most immigration quotas were allocated to European countries, while many Asian countries had comparatively smaller quotas. Thus, the act was often seen as discriminatory.

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With the passage of the 23rd Amendment, the right to vote would now be extended to those residing in the District of Columbia in national elections. The 23rd Amendment guarantees this right to these people by giving the distric electoral votes, as if it were a state.

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While the 24th Amendment didn't necessarily grant any specific demographic the right to vote, it did make the process of voting more accessible. It did this by prohibiting the use of poll taxes, which are taxes levied on everyone when voting. The 24th Amendment made it illegal to charge anyone for the right to cast a ballot in any federal election.

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While Black Americans legally had the right to vote in federal elections, many barriers were put in place to prevent these individuals' ability to successfully cast a ballot. Many of these barriers included things like literacy tests and other means to prevent individuals from a race-based standpoint. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibited these means, thus enhancing the abilities of Black Americans to vote in the United States.

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The 26th Amendment made the right to vote more expansive across all of the United States. It did this so by lowering the voting age from twenty-one to eighteen. Thus, the 26th Amendment expanded the right to vote to individuals in the United States between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one, by stating that nobody under the age of eighteen shall be abridged the right to vote.

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The Voting Rights Act Reauthorization of 1975 reaffirmed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This effectively made literacy tests illegal and required any voting materials to be translated into other minority languages. This further extended the capabilities to vote for minority citizens in the United States.

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Voting Accessibility for Elderly and Handicapped Act (1984)

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Voting Accessibility for Elderly and Handicapped Act (1984)

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The Voting Accessibility for Elderly and Handicapped Act aided in the extension of the right to vote for elderly or individuals with disabilities by requiring to make polling locations more accessible. The act also requires that an alternative means of voting must be provided for these individuals in the instance that an accessible polling location is not feasible.

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Voting Accessibility for Elderly and Handicapped Act