See also Property requirements; Taxpaying requirements
States
Constitutional power to determine suffrage laws
control over election administration
federal setting of voting requirements in new
and women’s suffrage
literacy tests
municipal voting rights
suffrage laws during Revolutionary era
suffrage laws prior to Constitutional Convention
suffrage laws, 1776-1920
suffrage laws, Tables A.1-A.20
Steinfeld, Robert
Stevens, John Paul
Stevens, Thaddeus
Stewart, Potter
Stewart, William M.
Stone, Lucy
Students
“Strict scrutiny”
Suffrage, Tables A.1-A.20
Sullivan, James
Sumner, Charles
Sunset laws
Supreme Court
apportionment
Congress’s right to lower the voting age
districting and dilution
disfranchisement of felons
Election 2000
late nineteenth century
literacy tests
municipal and special-purpose elections
partisanship of members of
photo ID requirements
registration
residency qualifications
ruling against grandfather clauses
selective economic qualifications for voting
right of states to determine suffrage law
upholding disfranchisement of blacks in South
upholding of poll tax
Voting Rights Act
voting rights and citizenship
Warren Court
white primary laws See also individual cases
Taft, William Howard
Tait, Andrew
Tammany Hall and suffrage movement
Taxpaying requirements
“Indians not taxed” provisions
rebellions by suffragists See also Poll taxes
Technology. See Voting technology
Temperance movement
Tennessee
Texas
and minority voters
pauper exclusion
redistricting controversy
tax requirement in
residency for members of military
voter registration procedure
white primary
women’s suffrage in
Thernstrom, Stephan
Third parties
Thomas, Clarence
Thornburg v. Gingles
Thorpe, Francis N.
Thurmond, Strom
Thurner, Manuela
Tilden, Samuel
Tilley, M.E.
To Secure These Rights (Committee on Civil Rights)
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Totality of circumstances standard
Townshend, Norton
Trujillo, Miguel
Truman, Harry
Turner, Frederick Jackson
Turnout. See Voter turnout
Tuskegee, Alabama, racial redistricting in
Tweed, William Marcy “Boss”
Twenty-second Amendment, proposed
Twenty-fourth Amendment
Twenty-sixth Amendment
Two-party system
Tyler, John
Udall, Levi
Uggen, Christopher
Under-votes
Union League Club
United Auto Workers
United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburgh, Inc. v. Carey
United States v. Classic et al.
Universal suffrage
congressional proposal for in 1963
criticisms of
insufficiency of for fully democratic political order
international comparisons
Radical Republicans 1864-1868
supporters of in late nineteenth century
ways to have good government despite
women’s suffrage movement
U.S. attorneys, firing of
Utah
Vagrants. See also Pauper exclusions; Residency rules
Van Buren, Martin
Vandenberg, Arthur
Verba, Sidney
Vermont
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Vietnam and lowering of voting age
Virginia
antebellum period
from 1870-1910
residency requirements
state constitutional convention of 1829
suffrage during Revolutionary era
women’s suffrage
Vote suppression. See Voter suppression
Voter Action
Voter Education Project
Voter registration. See Registration, voter
Voter suppression, 2000-2008
Voter turnout
class-skewed
decline in after 1896
defining
effect of registration laws in late twentieth century
and Motor Voter act
in 1920-1960 period
Voting
assistance in the process of
compulsory
Help America Vote Act
individualistic conception of
limiting of elective offices
physical act of and changes in, 1790s-1850s
technology of
voters with disabilities, election machines and
Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act (1984)
Voting age
Voting Rights Act of 1965 (and later amendments and reauthorizations)
felon disfranchisement
language-assistance provisions
legal challenge to 2006 renewal
Native Americans
1982 amendment restoring totality of circumstances test
preclearance provision of
residency
Supreme Court upholding
vote dilution and districting
voting age and See also Fourteenth Amendment: equal protection clause; Fifteenth Amendment; Supreme Court
Voting technology
DRE machines
optical scanners
punch cards and mechanical lever machines
security issues with voting machines
VVPAT (voter verified paper trail)
Wadsworth, James
Wage Earners’ Suffrage league
Wald, Lillian
Wallace, Henry
Wang, Tova
War
absence of, and contraction of suffrage from Civil War to World War I
expansion of suffrage See also Military service
War against Mexico
War of 1812
Warren, Earl
Warren Court
Washington, Booker T.
Washington, George
Washington (D.C.), voting rights in
Washington (state)
Weber, Max
Webster, Daniel
Weil, Gertrude
Wellman, Mrs. E.F.
Wesley v. Collins
West Virginia
“Whig” or triumphalist interpretation of history
Whig party
Whitcomb v. Chavis
White Citizens Council
White primaries
Whiting, Willie D.
Whiting, Willie J.
Why Americans Don’t Vote (Piven and Cloward)
Wickersham, George W.
Williamson, Chilton
Wilson, Charles
Wilson, Henry
Wilson, James
Wilson, Woodrow
Wilson-Pakula Act in New York
Winchell, Alexander
Wisconsin
Woman Suffrage and Politics (Catt and Shuler)
Woman Suffrage Party of New York
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
Wo
man’s Party
Woman’s rights national convention of 1851
Women’s Rebellion
Women’s suffrage, Tables A.17-A.20
acquisition of partial suffrage
alliance of movement with National Labor Union
and citizenship
and “equal rights”
arguments against
arguments in favor
Civil War era
1870s and 1880s
1890s and early 1900s
ethnic and class prejudices
in New Jersey
retarded by fear of any expansion of suffrage
in school board elections, Table A.17
in the South
Seneca Falls convention
and tax rebellions
in the West
and World War I
and the working class See also Nineteenth Amendment
Womens Trade Union League
Wood, Gordon
Working class
Works Progress Administration
World War II, and suffrage
Wyoming
Young, Samuel
Young, Thomas
Youth Franchise Coalition
Zimmer v. McKeithen
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Keyssar, Alexander.
The right to vote : the contested history of democracy in the United States / Alexander Keyssar.
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1. Suffrage—United States—History. 2. Voting—United States—History. I. Title.
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