The Seventeenth Amendment enabled citizens to directly elect their Senators. The Seventeenth Amendment was ratified in 1913.
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The slaves weren't allowed to vote because they weren't citizens. To be an citizen, your parents had to be citizens so, even if you were born in that place, you couldn't be citizens.
Not sure what country you are in. But in the free western world, all citizens are entitled to vote.
The15th amendment of the United State's Constitution allowed men of any race to vote. The 19th amendment then allowed women to vote.
About half of the adult males in France were these "active" citizens.
I't means that the citizens of a country has the right to vote for their president, and for the people who will sit in other government positions ( senators, governors, etc.)