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Fighting to Vote
For many centuries people had to fight for there right to vote, because of color issues and gender. But know it seems that there is another problem regarding to voting, and that being of the age. What was keeping people from voting back than? And what is keeping people from casting there votes right now?

The first thing keeping person from voting was their race, blacks being the one to stand out more back than. It all started back around in the 1980's, where black slaves wanted to vote at the time, but they weren't allowed to do so. A few years later the Thirteenth Amendment was added to the Constitution in 1865, it basically made slavery now illegal in the United States. Many states passed this to protect the black people against slavery, but most of the whites where against racial equality. Their for making most of the white fight against similar laws that congress tried to pass down. In addition to all of this some states did not accept the Thirteenth......

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