Eighteen-,nineteen-,and twenty-year-old Americans were granted the right to vote by the passage of the ________ Amendment.

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The Twenty-Sixth Amendment was passed in 1971 and granted the right to vote to all citizens over the age of 18. Prior to this, the voting age had been 21. The Fifteenth Amendment granted voting rights to black men, the Nineteenth Amendment granted voting rights to women, the Twenty-First Amendment repealed prohibition, and the Twenty-Third Amendment granted voting rights to residents of Washington, D.C.

Eighteen-,Nineteen-,And Twenty-Year-Old Americans Were Granted the Right to Vote by the Passage