Ch. 13 Vocab - Expanding the Right to Vote

The Right to vote.

• Disenfranchised

• Suffrage

• Executive Privilege

• Emancipation

Laws passed to segregate blacks from whites in restaurants, hotels, and theaters.

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Jim Crow Laws

• Separation Mandates

Special voter registration fees instituted to prevent African Americans who could not afford the fees from voting.

• Poll taxes

• Ballot Tariffs

• Disenfranchised

• Jim Crow Laws

People who were qualified to vote in 1867 could avoid literacy tests and poll taxes. This helped poor whites vote while preventing African Americans from voting.

• Grandfather Clause

• Suffrage

• Ballot Review

• Executive Privilege

To deprive a person or group of the right to vote.

• Suffrage

• Segregate

• Emancipate

• Disenfranchised

A law passed by Congress attempting to lower the voting age to 18. The Supreme Court declared it as unconstitutional.

• 19th Amendment

• Black Codes

• Voting Rights Act

• Civil Rights Act

Gave women the right to vote (Suffrage)

• 19th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 24th Amendment

Lowered the voting age to 18

• 24th Amendment

• 26th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

Abolished the use of poll taxes

• 19th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

• 24th Amendment

• 26th Amendment

Any change or addition to the Constitution

• Constitution

• Amendment

• Law

• Bill