15th Amendment: This amendment prohibits the denial of the right to vote based on race, color or previous condition of servitude. This amplified the democratic system allowing all African Americans and ex-slaves to vote, liberty that was denied to them.
17th Amendment: This amendment was passed during the Progressive Era and established the direct election of US Senators by popular vote. Now the population can choose their Senators directly.
19th Amendment: The 19th Amendment was a victory of the women’s rights movement, since it prohibited the denial of the right to vote based on gender.
24th Amendment: The 24th Amendment prohibited the limitation of voting rights due to non-payment of poll tax or any other tax. Since the right to vote is a right linked to freedom and citizenship.
26th Amendment: Prohibited the denial of right to vote to any US citizen based on age. Every citizen has the right to vote when they reach 18 years old.
The main cause is poverty and lack of education. They're very poor, so they can't afford school. If the children do go to school, they drop out very young to work and help earn money for the family. That's not the kind of cycle people can break out of easily.
Add to that the civil war from 1960 to 1996 where the military persecuted the native people, killing up to 200,000, and they've had a pretty rough time of it.
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