history assignment

 From the mid-1800s to the present, there was a gradual push to expand voting rights in the United States to more groups of citizens. Often, the push to expand voting rights was met with attempts to limit and restrict the right to vote. Analyze the reasons and methods utilized for denying the right to vote to certain groups of people. Were the voting requirements and restrictions that were enacted justified and necessary? Or were there ulterior motives behind some of them?