Politics and Public Policy

The right to vote.

• Suffrage

• Caucus

• Disenfranchise

• Civil Disobedience

Declared that all people born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the law.

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 24th Amendment

Gave African American men the right to vote.

• 15th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 26th Amendment

To deny the right to vote.

• Disenfranchise

• Suffrage

• Civil Disobedience

• Delegate

Gave women the right to vote.

• 19th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 24th Amendment

• 26th Amendment

Gave residents of Washington DC the right to vote.

• 23rd Amendment

• 24th Amendment

• 26th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

Abolished poll taxes.

• 24th Amendment

• 23rd Amendment

• 26th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

A law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African-American suffrage.

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Federal Election Campaign Act

• Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission

• Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002

Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.

• Amendment 26

• Amendment 25

• Amendment 24

• Amendment 23

One of the two main political parties in the United States. Founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists, today their core values align with conservative ideology.

• Republican Party

• Democratic Party