Voting Rights Timeline

 White Americans that had failed in registering to vote were able to vote if their grandfathers could vote before Jan. 1 1867

• Literacy Tests

• Poll Taxes

• Grandfather Clauses

• Voter ID laws

A tax of a fixed amount per person and payable as a requirement for the right to vote

• Literacy Test

• Poll Tax

• Grandfather Clause

• Voter ID law

A test administered as a precondition for voting, often used to prevent African Americans from exercising their right to vote.

• Literacy Test

• Poll Tax

• Grandfather Clause

• Voter ID

Who could vote when the Constitution was written?

• Adult white men who owned property

• Universal suffrage

• All white men

• The wealthy

For what positions in the national government could people directly vote for when our Constitution was first ratified

• President and Congress

• Congress, President and Supreme Court

• President only

• House of Representatives only

Changed the way that the President was elected.

• 12th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 26th Amendment

Gave Black men the right to vote

• 12th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 24th Amendment

Provided for the direct election of Senators

• 15th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

• 24th Amendment

• 26th Amendment

Progressive era reform that enabled the people to select the candidates for office

• Referendum

• Direct election of Senators

• Women's Suffrage

• Direct Primary

The secret ballot

• Australian Ballot

• Austrian Ballot

• American Ballot

• English Ballot