Timeline of Voting Rights in the U.S. (C Block) by James Soares https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh en-us 2021-02-05 00:34:08 UTC 2025-09-25 03:02:24 UTC hello@padlet.com 1776 - Declaration of Independence jsoares4 https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1166559061 Only white, land owning men can vote.]]> 2021-02-05 00:34:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1166559061 Impacts of 2020 Election jsoares4 https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1166559064 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. ]]> 2021-02-05 00:34:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1166559064 Selma-1965 sdarby7 https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168845801 Lead by Martin Luther King Jr., over 500 protestors marched from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to demand the need for African American voting rights.]]> 2021-02-05 15:53:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168845801 1790 - Only white men can become citizens and vote/ Naturalization law iperez112 https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168851461 1790 Naturalization Law passed and it states that only free white immigrants can become citizens .]]> 2021-02-05 15:54:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168851461 1920- Right to vote extended to women. lmaldonadovil https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168852818 19th amendment passed which allowed women to vote in elections!]]> 2021-02-05 15:55:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168852818 1869-15 Amendment anaciri1 https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168854611 Congress passes the Fifteenth Amendment giving African American men the right to vote.]]> 2021-02-05 15:55:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168854611 1807-New Jersey women banned from voting https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168855796 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




]]> 2021-02-05 15:55:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168855796 1922 Asian≠White≠Citizen atran651 https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168856357 Supreme Court rules Japanese heritage people to be naturalized citizens but finds "Asian Indians" not to be naturalized. ]]> 2021-02-05 15:55:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168856357 1856- voting expanded to all white man fgarcia916 https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168857430 North Carolina is the last state to get rid of the property ownership as a requirement to vote]]> 2021-02-05 15:56:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168857430 1848-Activists for ending slavery and women’s rights join together evaldiviezo https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168859222 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. ]]> 2021-02-05 15:56:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168859222 1965 - Jeffrey https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168865486 By the end of 1965, 250,000 new black voters are registered, one third of them by federal examiners.


]]> 2021-02-05 15:57:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168865486 1965, The March Of Selma agallardoagui https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168866065
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.]]> 2021-02-05 15:57:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168866065 1966- juliana duque https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168869303 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.

]]> 2021-02-05 15:58:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168869303 1876-Indigenous people cannot vote anaciri1 https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168870472 The Supreme Court rules that Native Americans are not citizens as defined by the 14th Amendment and, thus, cannot vote.]]> 2021-02-05 15:58:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168870472 1872- Woman try to vote fgarcia916 https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168870684 Susan B. Anthony is arrested for trying to vote in a New York poll ]]> 2021-02-05 15:58:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168870684 1912-13/ women lead voting marches anaciri1 https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168887470 Women lead voting rights marches through New York and Washington, D.C.]]> 2021-02-05 16:01:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168887470 1866-Movements unite and divide evaldiviezo https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168890905 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. ]]> 2021-02-05 16:02:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168890905 1975- Voting materials in various languages lmaldonadovil https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168895674 Voting materials were required to be printed in other languages so that people who didn't know English could also participate.]]> 2021-02-05 16:03:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168895674 1940, Jim C agallardoagui https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168901464 2021-02-05 16:04:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168901464 The impact of the Civil War-1860-1868 fgarcia916 https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168902929 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]]> 2021-02-05 16:04:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168902929 1924- Natives become citizens but still cant vote. anaciri1 https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168903966 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.
]]> 2021-02-05 16:04:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168903966 1971-Voting age lowered to 18 anaciri1 https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168911997 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.]]> 2021-02-05 16:06:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168911997 1940 acuretjr https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168919548 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.]]> 2021-02-05 16:07:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168919548 2001- Should voting right be taken away from felons? lmaldonadovil https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168922534 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.]]> 2021-02-05 16:08:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jsoares4/omp58z889epmpqsh/wish/1168922534