https://padlet.com/jessicaahall2000/ero5rihyd7qu What is it? en-us 2017-06-22 15:11:54 UTC 2024-12-16 08:43:43 UTC hello@padlet.com jessicaahall2000 https://padlet.com/jessicaahall2000/ero5rihyd7qu/wish/177218018 When America was first starting out, only a specific group of people could vote, White, educated, males who owns land. At the time, They believed that only they were fit to vote. But after the Civil war, The Fifteenth Amendment came in.]]> 2017-06-22 15:13:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jessicaahall2000/ero5rihyd7qu/wish/177218018 jessicaahall2000 https://padlet.com/jessicaahall2000/ero5rihyd7qu/wish/177219021      The Fifteenth Amendment was added to the Constitution after the civil war, it made that no state could take any citizen the right to vote on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was a big step for fare rights to vote. But despite this addition to the Constitution, The some states were able to make laws that made it difficult for African Americans to vote. Like needing to pay taxes when voting, and passing a test about difficult questions. It made it difficult for minorities to vote. ]]> 2017-06-22 15:27:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jessicaahall2000/ero5rihyd7qu/wish/177219021 jessicaahall2000 https://padlet.com/jessicaahall2000/ero5rihyd7qu/wish/177219317       Later on, as more people were fighting for voting rights. The federal government started to make voting rights laws around 1970-1982 to broadened the federal role in elections. Voting taxes and tests were abolished, and the ballots will be printed in Spanish and other languages. This has helped African Americans and other minorities to have more access to voting. ]]> 2017-06-22 15:32:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jessicaahall2000/ero5rihyd7qu/wish/177219317 jessicaahall2000 https://padlet.com/jessicaahall2000/ero5rihyd7qu/wish/177221138 In the mid-1800s and so on, Women started to fight for their rights to vote. They did many tings to get suffrage, but By 1914, only 11 states gave women the right to vote. After world war I, The Nineteenth Amendment was ratified, it gave  woman suffrage and was put into effect nationwide.]]> 2017-06-22 15:49:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jessicaahall2000/ero5rihyd7qu/wish/177221138