<Li> 1792 - 1838: Free black males lose the right to vote in several Northern states including in Pennsylvania and in New Jersey . </Li> <Li> 1792 - 1856: Abolition of property qualifications for white men, from 1792 (Kentucky) to 1856 (North Carolina) during the periods of Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democracy . However, tax - paying qualifications remained in five states in 1860--Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Delaware and North Carolina . They survived in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island until the 20th century . </Li> <Li> 1868: Citizenship is guaranteed to all persons born or naturalized in the United States by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, setting the stage for future expansions to voting rights . </Li> <Li> 1870: Non-white men and freed male slaves are guaranteed the right to vote by the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution . Disenfranchisement after the Reconstruction Era began soon after . Southern states suppressed the voting rights of black and poor white voters through Jim Crow Laws . During this period, the Supreme Court generally upheld state efforts to discriminate against racial minorities; only later in the 20th century were these laws ruled unconstitutional . Black males in the Northern states could vote, but the majority of African Americans lived in the South . </Li>

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