USA HISTORY

WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900

AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The eight box law, poll tax, literacy test and gerrymandering were all forms of systematic denial of rights referred to as ____
A
segregation
B
redeemers
C
suffrage
D
disenfranchisement
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -: to deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity. especially : to deprive of the right to vote.

Detailed explanation-2: -Disfranchisement after the Reconstruction era in the United States, especially in the Southern United States, was based on a series of laws, new constitutions, and practices in the South that were deliberately used to prevent black citizens from registering to vote and voting.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1966, shortly after the Harper decision, the poll tax was repealed; in its place a stepchild, annual voter registration, was adopted. The federal courts also inspired another, separate amendment to Section 2 in 1966: repeal of the prior-residency requirement for members of the armed forces.

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