<Li> 1913: Direct election of Senators, established by the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, gave voters rather than state legislatures the right to elect senators . </Li> <Li> 1920: Women are guaranteed the right to vote by the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution . In practice, the same restrictions that hindered the ability of poor or non-white men to vote now also applied to poor or non-white women . </Li> <Li> 1924: All Native Americans are granted citizenship and the right to vote, regardless of tribal affiliation . By this point, approximately two thirds of Native Americans were already citizens . </Li> <Li> 1943: Chinese immigrants given the right to citizenship and the right to vote by the Magnuson Act . </Li>

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