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Why was the 24th amendment important to voters?
The 24th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibits a poll tax (or other types of tax) in order to vote. This meant that every citizen who registered to vote could vote without paying a fee (poll tax). The amendment was proposed by Congress to the states on August 27, 1962, and was ratified by the states on January 23, 1964.
What was the purpose of the 24th Amendment?
it gave all human being a shot to have a counted vote well as long as you pay the registration fee. WOMEN, black, white, red, and yellow
Name the amendments that guarantee or address voting rights?
Answer:(15, 19, 23, 24, 26) explained below.The 15th addresses African-American voting rights The 19th, women's suffrage (i.e. right to vote)The 23rd can be included in this answer since it has to do with the Electoral College.The 24th amendment removed the Poll Tax. From Wikipedia's page on the 24th amendment: (see source 1)"The poll tax was part of a series of laws intended to marginalize black Americans from politics so far as practicable without violating the Fifteenth Amendment, which required that voting not be limited by "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."Being charged a fee in order to vote can be seen as a way to prevent impoverished citizens from participating in the democratic process. So, the tax was declared unconstitutional, and this amendment was ratified to correct the injustice.Finally, the 26th gives persons 18 years of age or older the right to vote. (This is also the fastest amendment to ever move through Congress. This fact has a lot to do with the Vietnam War that was being waged at the time. Many protesters held signs reading, "Old enough to fight, Old enough to vote" and similar sentiments.Source 1:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Background
When did Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution happen?
Imagine that you are finally old enough to vote in your first election. But, do you have enough money? Money, to vote? Not long ago, citizens in some states had to pay a fee to vote in a national election. This fee was called a poll tax. On January 23, 1964, the United States ratified the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officialism's Southern states adopted a poll tax in the late 1800s. This meant that even though the 15th Amendment gave former slaves the right to vote, many poor people, both blacks and whites, did not have enough money to vote. "Do you know I've never voted in my life, never been able to exercise my right as a citizen because of the poll tax?" "Mr. Trout" to Mr. Pike, interviewer, Atlanta, Georgia. American Life Histories, 1936 - 1940. More than 20 years after "Mr. Trout" spoke those words, the poll tax was abolished. At the ceremony in 1964 formalizing the 24th Amendment, President Lyndon Johnson noted that: "There can be no one too poor to vote." Thanks to the 24th Amendment, the right of all US. citizens to freely cast their votes has been secured.
Why did poll taxes hurt low income African-Americans?
A poll tax was a fee required to vote. A person who who could not or did not want to pay the fee could not vote. Poll taxes discouraged ex-slaves from voting.
