WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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by banning all elections in the state
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by holding secret elections for poor, illiterate whites
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by allowing educated whites to vote in their places
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by creating loopholes like the grandfather clause
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Detailed explanation-1: -Poll taxes, literacy tests, fraud and intimidation all turned African Americans away from the polls. Until the Supreme Court struck it down in 1915, many states used the “grandfather clause “ to keep descendents of slaves out of elections.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the United States, between the 1850s and 1960s, literacy tests were administered to prospective voters, and this had the effect of disenfranchising African Americans and others with diminished access to education.
Detailed explanation-3: -This act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.
Detailed explanation-4: -How did the ratio of voter registration rates change between African Americans and whites as a result of the Voting Rights Act of 1965? African American voter registration rates surpassed white registration rates.