Events
All states had eliminated religious requirements for votingHard times resulting from the Panic of 1819ten states permitted white manhood suffrage without qualificationa number of states, mainly in the Midwest,
allowed immigrants who intended to become citizens to voteonly sixteen black New Yorkers were qualified to voteonly five states—Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont—
allowed African Americans to vote without significant restrictionsThe Reconstruction Act of 1867
required the former Confederate states to approve new constitutionsthirteen northern and western states barred
illiterate adults from votingat the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New YorkPeriods
fifteen Northern states
and territories rejected
proposals to extend
suffrage to African
Americans
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