Voting Rights Dbq

In 1965 congress had passed Civil Rights law for all citizens to be able to vote. Before, African American and white women did not have the same equal rights to vote as white men did. The white males allowed a small number of free African Americans to go register and vote. For a African American to vote they were required to be a free citizen and not a runaway slave. In 1867 congress made it possible for African Americans to vote. The new constitutions guarantee black suffrage and congress tried to protect the African Americans right to vote by putting the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment. When congress passed the Civil Rights law African American still suffered from voting because congress made it unaffordable for poor people to vote. A

lot of African American did not have enough land or money to support them because slavery paid little, or nothing at all. White males became incontrol of the state legislatures, they used a process known as, “Redemption” which allowed them to use the boundaries of an electoral constituency to reduce African American vote strength and minimize the number of black elected officials.  The Ku Klux Klan,  Knights of the White Camellia, and other terrorist organization tried to prevent the Fifteenth Amendment from being enforced by relying on violence and intimidation. The Ku Klux Klan wanted to make sure that no other race have equal voting rights as them because they viewed themselves  superior to African American. They wanted to be the only race to vote and white males to be only president.
Women began to start taking part in revolutionary movement in the 1800’s. Women were denied of many right and looked down upon because they were viewed less inferior and sacred to white males. The only jobs that white males allowed women to do were cooking, cleaning, and take care of the their family. Women had little opportunities and jobs to pick from because they lack little or no education at all. They had minimal options of jobs to choose from which also paid them less than men. Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton started the whole women rights law. They demanded that women had the same equal rights that men had in education, property, and voting. Many people mostly men thought women did not have the potential, decisions, or intelligent like men. Woman suffrage gained strength after the 15th amendment to the Constitution was created, that gave the black men the right to vote but women. Women had three achievements towards the right to vote. First, one was to request the  states to allow them to have the rights to vote. The second, one was to present a court cases that applicated them to be viewed as equal to man. The finally approach was to push for a national constitutional amendment that would make women have the right to vote. Women did not have too many rights when it came down to it. Women suffrage lasted for about 70 years before the Nineteenth Amendment. Wyoming was the first to passed the first women’s suffrage law. After that year women became serving on juries. Colorado was the first state to grant the Nineteenth Amendment. Then other states followed right after them and brought together more than one hundred African American women clubs. Women suffrage amendment, was passed in 1878 by the House Representatives and the Senate, which also improved women’s working progress and salary by working the same just as men.
Today voting rights is drastically improved since the 1900s.

All citizens share the equal right to vote. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of the federal legislation in the United States, it prohibits racial discrimination in voting. The act was officially signed and passed by President Lyndon B. Johnson during the Civil Rights Movement. Congress had to secure the voting rights all over the countries for racial minorities. They also provided a law that prohibits every state and local government from striking any voting law that has to do with racial or language minorities. Voting rights has changed the whole world by letting citizen over the age 18 to vote for their qualified candidate every four years. Congress kept a nationwide police that protected the act of voting rights because of the race, and language minorities. Jurisdictions requirements contains significant language to provide ballots and other election materials. In June of 2013 democrats had a huge blow out, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the coverage of the used for Section five. They wanted to make a new voting producers to get federal government approval from the Department of Justice. The decision did not get to strike down the Section five because they did not have any prejudicial distinction of the purpose or effect. Congress is working on developing  a whole new formula for the VRA to protect minority voters at the polls. Eligible for voting at a shareholder; corporate record names of all owners that go to the meeting on the day and if the shareholder is not listed on that date they can and may not be able to vote. Shareholders have one vote per share, but overall shareholders have no voting rights at all. Citizen that are voting can go up in person to vote or they can send their votes through the

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    Approximately 5.3 million Americans can not vote because they are felons. Ex-felons lose their voting rights for convicting a crime, especially if the crime was to be against an individual who committed murder or a serious crime. Felons trying to vote became an issue in the last half of the 20th century because felons were labeled as untrustworthy in many kinds of certain rights. They violated their rights when they went to jail which also lost made them lose their privileges to vote. Regulations that have to deal with parole boards, prison staff, or even state offices can cause something like the backlog in the process of the applications. Although, some felons can or may have the ability to earn their rights to vote in a state they can get their rights back under one condition, but the states did not have the staff, or resources to handle all the high number of applicants to restore those privileges in a matter of time for the felons. In Mississippi they did not let anyone with a crime record to vote because they believe if they were not willing to follow the law, they can’t claim the right to make the law for everyone else. Mississippi take this seriously they recently piled the eleventh disqualifying felonies onto the tenth listed in their state’s constitution. It is legal for states to deprive felons. Forty-eight states do not allow current inmates from voting, thirty-six states keep parolees from the polls, and thirty-one exclude probationers. Mississippi do not tolerate a felon feeling especially when it comes to the voting right. Anyone that wants to vote in Mississippi must follow and abide the rules. Sentencing Project study that as a released felony found that those that convicted a crime who voted were less than a half more likely to be rearrested as those who did not or could not vote. Mississippi prohibits felons to vote because they feel  if they let prisoners vote after they get out they will go back to their crimine lifestyle and do the exact same crime they convicted and be brought back to prison.  
States should allow prisoners the right to vote after they get out of prison because they have paid their debt to society. Vermont and Maine are the only two states that permits prisoners vote after serving their sentence. Ex-felons in those two states are given the right to vote because they work and pay taxes to the government just as everyone else. More than 180 years ago, neither state kept data on the number of inmates who got to vote. In vermont, the critica for voting is based on the state constitution and there is nothing in there to prevent prisoners from voting.  In 2002, Vermont allowed inmates and felons to run for presidential seats in their state.  Prisoners have served their punishment prescribed by the judicial system. All other forty-eight states are just penalizing them further by taking their right to vote away from them. It is just not fair for them to be let out because they served all the time. Maine Republicans raised the issue this year in the second Congressional District race, calling Democratic candidate Emily Cain extremist for voting to keep those voting rights in place. Congress wants to make sure all states have protection for prisoners voting rights.