Voting Rights Act of 1965

When was the Voting Rights Act passed?

• 1965

• 1950

• 1994

• 2000

What was the grandfather clause?

• Allow everyone the equal right to vote

• Outlawed discrimination based on race,religion, national order or gender

• Make it legal to segregate schools

• clauses stated that if you, your father or your grandfather voted before 1867, you were allowed to vote without a literacy test or poll tax

When was the Voting Rights Act passed?

• 1964

• 1965

• 1985

• 2001

What did the Voting Rights act do?

• ban segregation in public places.

• gave women the right to vote.

• gave all African Americans the right to vote without having to take literacy tests.

Who signed both the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act?

• JFK

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• FDR

• Harry Truman

Select two things African Americans had to do to vote that the Voting Act of 1965 stopped.

• Literacy Test (Reading Test)

• Blood test

• constitutions

• Grandfather clause