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  2. Timeline of voting rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline of voting rights in the United States, documenting when various groups in the country gained the right to vote or were disenfranchised. Contents 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1980s

  3. Voting rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Voting rights, specifically enfranchisement and disenfranchisement of different groups, have been a moral and political issue throughout United States history. Eligibility to vote in the United States is governed by the United States Constitution and by federal and state laws.

  4. Category : History of voting rights in the United States

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    Timeline of voting rights in the United States; Timeline of women's suffrage in the United States; Transgender disenfranchisement in the United States; Trial of Susan B. Anthony; Banks Turner; Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution

  5. Timeline of women's suffrage in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1870: The Utah Territory grants suffrage to women. [7]1870: The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted. The amendment holds that neither the United States nor any State can deny the right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude," leaving open the right of States to deny the right to vote on account of sex.

  6. Timeline: The women's rights movement in the US - AOL

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    Historians describe two waves of feminism in history: the first in the 19 th century, growing out of the anti-slavery movement, and the second, in the 1960s and 1970s. Women have made great ...

  7. List of amendments to the Constitution of the United States

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    The last time a proposal gained the necessary two-thirds support in both the House and the Senate for submission to the states was the District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment in 1978. Only 16 states had ratified it when the seven-year time limit expired.

  8. History of Native American Voting Rights - AOL

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    On June 21, 1788, the day the Constitution was ratified and became the foundation for the government of the United States, Native Americans — people who have stewarded land here since time ...

  9. Mitch McConnell's complicated history on the Voting Rights Act

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    In August 1965, law school student Mitch McConnell was in his 20s and a veteran of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where he heard Martin Luther King Jr. deliver the "I Have a Dream ...