https://padlet.com/5053061/7jaix0z1ais3dttm en-us 2022-09-06 23:01:07 UTC 2025-12-23 21:35:15 UTC hello@padlet.com 5053061 https://padlet.com/5053061/7jaix0z1ais3dttm/wish/2286766209 The Naturalization Act of 1790 set the criteria for naturalization to two years of residency, proof of good moral character, and an oath to support the Constitution. This was the first law to define eligibility for citizenship by naturalization and establish standards and procedures by which immigrants became US citizens. In this early version, Congress limited this important right to “free white persons]]> 2022-09-07 16:30:13 UTC https://padlet.com/5053061/7jaix0z1ais3dttm/wish/2286766209 5053061 https://padlet.com/5053061/7jaix0z1ais3dttm/wish/2286778682 2022-09-07 16:37:19 UTC https://padlet.com/5053061/7jaix0z1ais3dttm/wish/2286778682 5053061 https://padlet.com/5053061/7jaix0z1ais3dttm/wish/2286788035 the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. The 19th amendment legally guarantees American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle—victory took decades of agitation and protest.]]> 2022-09-07 16:42:54 UTC https://padlet.com/5053061/7jaix0z1ais3dttm/wish/2286788035 5053061 https://padlet.com/5053061/7jaix0z1ais3dttm/wish/2286794437 Congress enacted the Indian Citizenship Act, which granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S. The right to vote, however, was governed by state law until 1957, some states banned native Americans from voting.]]> 2022-09-07 16:46:41 UTC https://padlet.com/5053061/7jaix0z1ais3dttm/wish/2286794437 5053061 https://padlet.com/5053061/7jaix0z1ais3dttm/wish/2286799946 It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. In the spring of 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. This act provided an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States. Thus impacted voting by for ten whole years Chinese immigrants could not vote in American elections.]]> 2022-09-07 16:50:03 UTC https://padlet.com/5053061/7jaix0z1ais3dttm/wish/2286799946 5053061 https://padlet.com/5053061/7jaix0z1ais3dttm/wish/2286812718 The 23rd amendment would permit District citizens to elect Presidential electors who would be in addition to the electors from the States and who would participate in electing the President and Vice President.]]> 2022-09-07 16:57:51 UTC https://padlet.com/5053061/7jaix0z1ais3dttm/wish/2286812718 5053061 https://padlet.com/5053061/7jaix0z1ais3dttm/wish/2286878490 prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.]]> 2022-09-07 17:35:42 UTC https://padlet.com/5053061/7jaix0z1ais3dttm/wish/2286878490 5053061 https://padlet.com/5053061/7jaix0z1ais3dttm/wish/2286882532 the Supreme Court ruled that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires that the legislative districts across states be equal in population.]]> 2022-09-07 17:38:09 UTC https://padlet.com/5053061/7jaix0z1ais3dttm/wish/2286882532 5053061 https://padlet.com/5053061/7jaix0z1ais3dttm/wish/2286890087 This act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.]]> 2022-09-07 17:42:44 UTC https://padlet.com/5053061/7jaix0z1ais3dttm/wish/2286890087 5053061 https://padlet.com/5053061/7jaix0z1ais3dttm/wish/2286892231 The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.]]> 2022-09-07 17:44:14 UTC https://padlet.com/5053061/7jaix0z1ais3dttm/wish/2286892231 5053061 https://padlet.com/5053061/7jaix0z1ais3dttm/wish/2286901544 An Act to amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to extend certain provisions for an additional seven years, to make permanent the ban against certain prerequisites to voting, and for other purposes]]> 2022-09-07 17:50:38 UTC https://padlet.com/5053061/7jaix0z1ais3dttm/wish/2286901544 5053061 https://padlet.com/5053061/7jaix0z1ais3dttm/wish/2286979584 Shaw v. Reno, 509 U.S. 630, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in the area of redistricting and racial gerrymandering. After the 1990 census, North Carolina qualified to have a 12th district and drew it in a distinct snake-like manner in order to create a “majority-minority” Black district. ]]> 2022-09-07 18:38:03 UTC https://padlet.com/5053061/7jaix0z1ais3dttm/wish/2286979584 5053061 https://padlet.com/5053061/7jaix0z1ais3dttm/wish/2286987155 The Motor Voter Act allowed people to register to vote when they get their driver's license or when they get it renewed.]]> 2022-09-07 18:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/5053061/7jaix0z1ais3dttm/wish/2286987155 5053061 https://padlet.com/5053061/7jaix0z1ais3dttm/wish/2286989514 HAVA was passed by the U.S. Congress in 2002 to make sweeping reforms to the nation's voting process. HAVA addresses improvements to voting systems and voter access that were identified following the 2000 election.]]> 2022-09-07 18:44:21 UTC https://padlet.com/5053061/7jaix0z1ais3dttm/wish/2286989514