11/4/13 assignment

1. voting rights are called suffrage or franchise
2. electorate- potential voting population
3. five stages
4. struggleing to extend voting rights
5. broaden the electorate after the civil war
6.19th amendment gave women right to vote
7.securing african americans right to vote
8.26th amendment allow 18 year olds right to vote
9.power to set voting qualifications
10. allowed to vote nationally if can vote in state
11. no state can deprive the person of right to vote
12. no taxes are required to vote in any state
13. no state can deprive 18 year old of the right to vote
14. poll tax tax imposed by several states as a qualification for voting
15. disenfranchised- citizens denied the right to vote
16. 14th amendment equal protection law
17. voting requirements changed through out history
18. women were first then african americans then 18 year olds
19. used to be more restrictions
20. anyone may vote now