Discuss the Progression and Impact of Amendments Relating to Voting

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The Answer is The Fifteenth Amendment gave black males the vote; the Nineteenth Amendment gave women the vote; the Twenty-Fourth Amendment required the right to vote not be denied by reason of failure to pay taxes; and the Twenty-Sixth Amendment lowered the voting age to 18. Though women were given the right to vote fifty years after black males, the Twenty-Fourth Amendment was passed to forbid states from disenfranchising those who were too poor to pay poll taxes (most often affecting black voters-both male and female). Lowering the voting age to 18 allowed all American adults to participate in the political process.

Discuss the Progression and Impact of Amendments Relating to Voting

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