Voting Rights Timeline (2)
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Voting Rights in America
Lesson Plans by Liane Hicks
The Declaration of Independence declared that “All men are created equal”, but most people in the United States did not have full rights of citizenship until almost two hundred years later. Engage students with premade activities from Storyboard That!
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- 19th Amendment Ratified
- "Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box with no variableness nor shadow of turning."-Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Voting Rights in the U.S. 1920 - 2006
- The Snyder Act Passed
- After almost 100 years of fighting for women’s suffrage, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution passed, granting women the right to vote.
- “The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”- Ida B. Wells
- The Snyder Act of 1924 gave Native Americans born in the U.S. full citizenship. Individual states often still barred Native Americans from voting and employed strategies like poll taxes, literacy tests, fraud, and intimidation.
- “all non-citizen Indians born within the territorial limits of the United States…to be citizens of the United States.”
- "a great step forward in removing all of the remaining obstacles to the right to vote" - Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Voting Rights Act of 1965
- 26th Amendment Ratified
- "Old enough to fight, old enough to vote!"
- After 100 years of fighting for equality, the Voting Rights Act is signed by President Johnson. It enforces the 15th Amendment, explicitly saying that obstacles that prevent people from voting are against federal law.
- On July 1, the 26th Amendment is passed, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18. It meant to resolve the disparity that 18-year-old men are old enough to be drafted, yet did not have the right to vote.
- VRA of 1965 Expanded
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- Under President Ford, Congress expands the Voting Rights Act to protect the voting rights of men and women in language minorities from discrimination at the polls.
- Extension to Voting Rights Act
- Help America Vote Act
- This Voting Rights Act was extended another 25 years and included requirements for states to make voting more accessible for the elderly and people with disabilities.
- Voting Rights Act Extended
- Because of problems with the 2000 election, the Help America Vote Act was passed. States were given funding to update voting equipment and required new voters to register using the last 4 digits of their SSN or a license.
- In 2006, under President George W. Bush, Congress voted to extend the Voting Rights Act for another 25 years.
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