Ch. 13: Extending Voting Rights to Disenfranchised Groups

disenfranchised

a person or group that has been stripped of his or her ability to vote

15th amendment

cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude (slavery)

literacy tests, grandfather clause, Poll tax, Jim Crow

what Southern states used to strip African Americans of their rights

literacy tests

a reading and writing test African Americans had to pass to vote

grandfather clause

no poll tax or literacy test if you voted before 1867, helped poor whites but not blacks

poll tax

special voter registration fees that African Americans could not afford to pay

Jim Crow laws

blacks and whites were separated in restaurants, hotels and theaters

19th amendment

women gain the right to vote (1920)

26th amendment

lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 (1971)

Vietnam War

young men were old enough to be drafted but not old enough to vote

24th amendment

you cannot be denied the right to vote if you can't pay a voting tax (fee) (1964)

civil liberties

protections against government actions

suffrage

the right to vote

who could originally vote in the U.S.?

white men who owned property

African Americans

poll tax was aimed at stopping this group from voting

17th amendment

direct election of senators by the people

state legislatures

picked Senators before the 17th amendment

World War 1

war that convinced people that women should be able to vote

factories, mills, and mines

where women worked during World War 1

26th amendment

Old enough to fight, old enough to vote

civil rights

govt actions to create equal conditions for all persons