Unit 10 Topic 1 Review

What does the term suffrage mean?

• Suffering

• The right to vote

• The right to protest

• The right to suffer

In response to the demonstrations of the civil rights movement, Congress passed this act to enforce the 15th amendment and remove the obstacles to voting that African Americans faced, especially in the South.

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• 19th amendment

• 21st amendment

• The Harrison Act

Who could vote in Colonial America?

Abolished slavery

• 13th amendment

• 14th amendment

• 15th amendment

• 21st amendment

Made formerly enslaved persons (and all others born on American soil) U.S. citizens and promised all citizens equal protection under the law.

• 13th amendment

• 14th amendment

• 15th amendment

• 1st amendment

The right of citizens of the United State to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

• 13th amendment

• 14th amendment

• 15th amendment

• 24th amendment

Outlawed poll taxes

• 21st amendment

• 24th amendment

• 19th amendment

• 1st amendment

A collection of state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation.

• Racist Laws

• Jim Crow Laws

• 2nd amendment

• Black laws

In 1848, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized a conference to discuss women's rights. At the Seneca Falls Convention, Stanton presented a document she called ______________. It called for woman's suffrage as well as many other civil rights for women.

• Declaration of Women

• Independence Day

• Declaration of Sentiments

• Anthony's manifesto

guarantee that a certain group of people CAN vote

• Disenfranchise

• enfranchise

• willingness

• voting laws