THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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the court ruled that Free Speech may be limited if there is a “clear and present danger”
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it ended the use of the Grandfather Clause in the USA
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It banned the process of “planned obsolescence”
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It was a case that upheld the use of the Volstead Act
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Detailed explanation-1: -Guinn v. United States struck down the “grandfather clause” in Oklahoma’s Voter Registration Act of 1910 because the clause discriminated against blacks and, therefore, violated the Fifteenth Amendment. The statute required voters to pass a reading test.
Detailed explanation-2: -United States, 238 U.S. 347 (1915), was a United States Supreme Court decision that found certain grandfather clause exemptions to literacy tests for voting rights to be unconstitutional.
Detailed explanation-3: -Until the Supreme Court struck it down in 1915, many states used the “grandfather clause “ to keep descendents of slaves out of elections. The clause said you could not vote unless your grandfather had voted–an impossibility for most people whose ancestors were slaves.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Grandfather Clause was a legal or constitutional mechanism passed by seven Southern states during Reconstruction to deny suffrage to Blacks. It meant that those who had enjoyed the right to vote prior to 1867, or their lineal descendants, would be exempt from educational, property, or tax requirements for voting.
Detailed explanation-5: -Its use was declared unconstitutional in federal elections by the Twenty-fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, effective in 1964.