1. Early Limits on Voting Rights
   1. Property qualifications
   2. Religious tests
   3. Natives, women, African-Americans, etc., couldn't vote, but
   4. White Immigrants could vote

2. African-Americans and Voting Rights
   1. 15th Amendment (1870)
   2. The Compromise of 1877
   3. Era of Jim Crow (1877-1965)
      1. Literacy Tests
      2. Poll Taxes
      3. Grandfather Clause (Guinn v. United States, 1913)
      4. White Primaries (Smith v. Allwright, 1944)
      5. Violence
   4. The Voting Rights Act (1965)
   5. Voting Rights Act (1975)
      1. English
      2. Spanish
      3. Chinese
      4. Japanese
      5. Vietnamese
      6. Tagalog
      7. Korean
   6. 1998 California Voters' Pamphlet

3. Other Voting Rights Extensions
   1. 17th Amendment (1913)--direct election of Senators
   2. 19th Amendment (1920)--women's voting rights
   3. 23rd Amendment (1960)--Washington, D.C.
   4. 24th Amendment (1964)--poll taxes
   5. 26th Amendment (1971)--18-year olds

4. Voter Turnout
   1. Decline in American Voting
   2. Voting in the United States compared with other countries
   3. Nonvoters tend to be:
      1. Less than high school education;
      2. Low income;
      3. Young;
      4. Nonwhite
   4. Reasons for nonvoting?

5. The Electoral College
   1. 2004 Presidential Election
   2. 1972 Presidential Election