Voting Rights 101

The 26th Amendment was passed in 1971. It says, "The right of citizens of the U.s, who are 17 years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied..."

During the Vietnam War, men ages 18 years or older were forced to join the military, but the voting age was 21. This led to citizens to fight for the voting age to be lowered to age 18. True or False?

Washington D.C (District of Columbia) is not a state. The District of Columbia did not get the right to vote in presidential elections until the 21st Amendment was ratified in 1961. True or False?

In 1964, President Calvin Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act, which gave American Indians full benefits of citizenship, including the right to vote. True or False?

Women gained voting rights In the August of 1920 when the 19th Amendment was passed. True or False?

The 15th Amendment was passed in 1870, five years after the end of the Civil War. This amendment gave African Americans the right to vote.

Many states dropped the requirement that voters must own property, but some states acted faster than others. Till this day you have to own property to vote in New York and Rhode Island. True or False?

The Framers of the Constitution couldn't agree on who should have the right to vote. Instead, they gave each state the power to decide what its own voting rights would be.

When the colonists came over from England they brought many of the English political laws and customs such as