2.6 Voting Amendments

Suffrage

The right to vote in political elections

Disenfranchised

Not allowed to vote

Suffrage Movements

Groups that protested for voting rights and equality.

Fifteenth Amendment

Gave African American men the right to vote.

Literacy Tests

Test you had to take when you went to vote to prove you could read and write.

Poll Taxes

Required citizens of a state to pay a special tax in order to vote.

Grandfather Clauses

Rules that allowed anyone who was allowed to vote in 1867 to skip the Literacy Tests and Poll Taxes.

Jim Crow Laws

State laws in the South that legalized segregation.

Nineteenth Amendment

Granted women the right to vote in 1920.

World War I

(WWI) America fought on the side of the British and the French against the Germans.

Woodrow Wilson

American President during WWI.

Twenty-Fourth Amendment

Banned poll taxes.

World War II

(WWII) America fought on the side of the British, the French, and the Soviet Union against the Germans and Italians.

Vietnam War

War between North and South Vietnam. America fought with South Vietnam to stop the spread of communism.

Twenty-Sixth Amendment

Lowered the voting age to 18.