Voting Rights in The United States - Milestones of National Franchise Extension

Milestones of National Franchise Extension

• Abolition of property qualifications for white men, 1812-1860 — see: Jacksonian democracy
• Citizenship in both the U.S. and U.S. States by birth or naturalization, 1868 — see: Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
• Non-white men, 1870 — see: Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
• Direct election of senators, 1913 — see: Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution gave voters rather than state legislatures the right to elect senators
• Women, 1920 — see: Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
• Native Americans, 1924 — see:
• Residents of the District of Columbia for U.S. Presidential Elections, 1961 — see: Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution
• Poor, 1964 — see: Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting imposition of poll tax in federal elections
• Racial minorities in certain states, 1965 — see Voting Rights Act
• Poor, 1966 — see: Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections, 383 U.S. 663 (1966), prohibiting imposition of poll tax or property requirements in all US elections.
• Adults between 18 and 21, 1971 — see: Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, were granted the vote in response to Vietnam War protests which argued that soldiers who are old enough to fight for their country should be old enough to vote.
• Washington, D.C., for restoring local elections such as Mayor and Councilmen, after 100 year gap in Georgetown, and 190 gap in the wider city, ending Congress's policy of local election disenfranchisement started in 1801 in this former portion of Maryland, 1973, — see: D.C. Home rule
• United States Military and Uniformed Services, Merchant Marine, other Citizens overseas, living on bases in the U.S., abroad, or aboard ship, 1986 — see: Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act