Voting rights have not been established in one amendment.
The number of amendments illustrate tendency by people in power to block voting rights.
1870: 15th amendment prohibits governments from "denying a citizen the right to vote based on color race, or previous condition of servitude."
1920: 19th amendment prohibits governments from 'denying a citizen the right to vote based on sex.'
1964: 24th amendment prohibits a poll tax or other type of tax be required before having the right to vote.
1971: 26th amendment minimum voting age to no more than 18 years of age. This amendment limited rights to vote, and was passed after colleg-age people protested the Vietnam War and practically brought the government down.
Unratified 1985: Right of District of Columbia (home of congress) to elect representatives
The 19th amendment allowed them to vote
15th Amendment
No, the 15th Amendment allowed all males to vote (the amendment was intended to allow African Americans to vote). Women could not vote (in most circumstances) until the 19th Amendment.
The Nineteenth Amendment permitted which of the following groups to vote for the first time?
The15th amendment of the United State's Constitution allowed men of any race to vote. The 19th amendment then allowed women to vote.
women
Allowed them to vote.
Allowed them to vote.
26th amendment
people to vote
twelfth amendment
The 15th Amendmentthe fifteenth amendmentThe15th amendment of the United State's Constitution allowed men of any race to vote. The 19th amendment then allowed everyone to vote.