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Women's Voting Rights in Colorado-High School
Women's Vote Movement Timeline
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Explore a timeline of key dates of the Women’s Vote Movement.
1877 CE
1st Referendum
1877 CE
Women’s suffrage referendum was put before Colorado voters for the first time. It failed to pass but did give women the right to vote in school electi...
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1893 CE
2nd Referendum
1893 CE
Colorado women’s suffrage referendum was held on November 7, 1893, to ratify a proposed constitutional amendment to prohibit discrimination against wo...
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1920 CE
19th Amendment
1920 CE
Passed by Congress on June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment granted most American women the right to vote. Colorado was on...
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1922 CE
Who Can Be a Citizen?
1922 CE
The Supreme Court ruled that people of Japanese ancestry are not eligible to become naturalized citizens.
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1924 CE
Limits for Voting
1924 CE
The Indian Citizenship Act grants citizenship to Native Americans but many western states limit voting rights.
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1943 CE
Chinese Exclusion Act
1943 CE
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which prohibited citizenship for people with Chinese ancestry, is repealed in an effort to strengthen World War II ...
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1946 CE
Luce-Celler Act
1946 CE
The Luce-Celler Act allows Filipino Americans and Indian Americans to naturalize and become U.S. citizens; the Act also establishes quotas that allowe...
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1952 CE
Walter-McCarran Act
1952 CE
The Walter-McCarran Act grants all people of Asian ancestry to become citizens.
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1962 CE
Native American Voting
1962 CE
New Mexico became the final state to enfranchise Native American voters.
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1965 CE
Voting Rights Act
1965 CE
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 suspends literacy tests in the Deep South and provides federal enforcement of voting rights in an effort to eradicate Ji...
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1970 CE
1970 Voting Rights Act
1970 CE
The 1970 Voting Rights Act prohibits literacy test in 20 states.
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