Reviewed on 7/16/2016 Fabrizia A. The Hay-Adams was the perfect venue for our DC wedding. From the beginning, Erin (our hotel contact) was incredibly responsive to our emails and patient with us as we made decisions. The hotel staff was really top notch and so attentive to my family's needs throughout the... Read More weekend.
See also. 1  Ballot access. 2  Black suffrage. 3  Forty acres and a mule. 4  Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1920, women's right to vote) 5  Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1971, uniform voting age of 18 or older) 6  Voting rights in the United States. 7  United States labor law.
Women were not accepted in most professions. Neither group was allowed to step into a voting booth. It wasn't until 1869, when the Fifthteenth Amendment was ratified, that males of all races got the vote. It took another 50 years, with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, for women to finally get suffrage. The Twenty-Third Amendment gave limited voting rights to the residents of Washington D.C. Then the 24th Amendment banned poll taxes that some states used to chase ethnic and poor people away from the ballot box. In some places, people needed to own property to vote-not anymore.