Voting History Timeline

The right to vote has a complicated history in the U.S. Restrictions based on race, religion, literacy, gender, age, military service and willingness to live in the frontier or stay on the reservation shaped laws from the colonial era through epic battles for universal suffrage.

Read or download the voting rights timeline (PDF, 4.9 MiB). The original Flash interactive is preserved in the source archive.

Timeline developed using AVE. Source List