Congress passes the District of Columbia Suffrage Act over Andrew Johnson's veto, granting voting rights all free men living in the District, regardless of racial background.

The American civil rights movement started in the mid-1950s. A major catalyst in the push for civil rights was in December 1955, when NAACP activist Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat …

In most cases, voting remained in the hands of white male Christian landowners. When Americans elected their first national leader in 1789, only this demographic – making up just …

Apr 19, 2021 · Since America’s founding days, when voting was limited to white male property owners, to the transformative Voting Rights Act of 1965, to sweeping voting process reform …

Historians’ estimates of these changes vary, but the most recent ones suggest that as many as 80 percent of adult white males were eligible to vote in the nation as a whole in 1800.

1856 – Right to vote extended to all white men, with or without property. 1868 – 14th Amendment (2nd Reconstruction Amendment) grants equal citizenship for all people, newly freed African …

Generally, states at this time only granted voting rights to white men who owned property, but not all states had the same property requirements. No one in the Convention argued for …

As property requirements for voting were abolished, economic status disappeared as a foundation for citizenship. By 1840 more than 90 percent of adult white men possessed the right to vote. …

Aug 3, 2020 · In 1870 Congress ratifies the Fifteenth Amendment, which guarantees all non-white men the right to vote. However, this right was often denied through intimidation and the …

Sep 16, 2024 · Voters must be white male landowners over the age of 21. States were given the power to regulate their own voting laws and in some states, Catholics, Jews, and Quakers …