Suffrage

What caused the number of eligible voters to double in the first 60 years of our country

Elimination of property rights and ethnic people being allowed to vote (with worser requirements however)

After the civil war, what efforts were made to protect the rights of non whites

Reconstruction amendments (13,14,15)

• Abolish slavery, equal protection and birthright, rights to vote

Led to reconstruction failure

• Domestic terrorism in the south (KKK)

• Northern white voters lose interest

• Republican party pulls the support, reconstruction is way to expensive and party is split between radicals and moderates

• Close election of 1876- Tilden v. Hayes

  • Republicans get white house in exchange for ending reconstruction

• 1877: US military ordered to stand down, reconstruction ENDS

Features of Jim Crow that limited voting rights

Common segregation (Plessy V. Ferguson)

White primaries

Poll taxes

Literacy tests

Grandfather clause

Mass threats of violence

19th amendment

women get the right to vote

• Through advocacy and counter arguments and NAWS

What worked well for getting womens rights to vote

Ww1 let women demonstrate their equality

Increased education increased their activism and less social sexism

No one wanted to be the party that opposed this

What DIDNT work well for getting wokens rights to vote

State campaigns after the civil war, the movement died out

Brown V. Board

1954, no segregation on education

Civil rights act

1964, bans segregation overall

1965 voting rights act

Ends Jim Crow barriers and punishes offending states

24th amendment

Bans poll taxes

Bottom up- Features of society and activism that led to civil rights

• South to north, freedom and rural to urban, population density

• NAACP and MLK

• Ww2 participation and labor union alliances

Top down- Features of elite and government action that led to civil rights

• Brown v. Board

• Truman desegregation in army

• Eisenhower uses national guard to enforce desegregation

• JFK calls MLK wife in jail

• LBJ mobilizes it in favor of congressional action

• Voting is north v. South not republicans v. Democrats

• Opportunity to restructure voter base

Overall led to people getting their rights

Solving collective action problems

Political factors

Education and a healthy middle class