Series of activities organized to achieve a goal

Denied your voting rights

complaints

Stopped or kept from happening

the right to vote or the exercise of this right.

an earnest request for help.

a request that a higher court hear a case. An appeal is made after one has lost a case in a lower court.

a type of cloth or woven fabric.

something that limits or restricts.

to revoke or withdraw formally or officially:

awake; able to feel, think, hear, and see.

to sign up

a piece of paper on which people who are voting enter their choices.

colonists believed that as they were not represented in the distant British parliament

a tax levied on a person, rather than a piece of property, as a requirement before for voting.

having to do with a system of government that unites several states under a central government. The states have their own governments, yet they recognize the rule of the central government as well.