voting rights

By lyzbeth_romero
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    voting rights

  • 13th amendment

    abolished slavery

  • 15th amendment

    gave minority males the right to vote

  • afican american voting rights

    southern states passed the laws that african americans cannot vote.

  • literacy test

    supreme court says that literacy tests are constitutional.

  • Grand father clause

    the grandfather clause is when the supreme court declared that if your grandfather couldnt vote the you cannot either

  • 19th amendment

    this amendment granted woman the right to vote.

  • poll taxes

    supreme court ruled that poll taxes are constitutional

  • 24th amendment

    this amendment outlawed the poll taxes

  • freedom summer

    this was an attempt to allow african americans to vote in Mississippi

  • voting rights act

    this act banned racial and ethnic discrimination in elections