Voter disenfranchisement
These are elections where citizens vote to choose government leaders.
What is Voting?
This is the practice of drawing voting district boundaries to support one group or party
What is Gerrymandering?
By the 1820s and 1830s, most states had removed this requirement for white men, expanding democratic participation.
What is a property ownership requirement?
This process allows voters to cast ballots before the official Election Day.
What is Early voting?
This famous speech by Martin Luther King Jr. was delivered during the March on Washington.
What is "I Have a Dream"?
For many years, people convicted of certain crimes lost the right to vote, a practice known as…
What is Felony Disenfranchisement?
Gerrymandering affects how people are represented in this type of government system
Approved after the Civil War, this amendment stated that voting rights could not be denied because of race, color, or previous condition of labor.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This term refers to efforts or policies that make voting more difficult for certain groups of people.
What is Voter suppression?
This movement fought to give women the right to vote in the United States.
What is the Women's Suffrage Movement?
Some states require voters to show this type of government-issued document before casting a ballot.
What is a Voter ID?
These lines on a map determine which voters are grouped together for elections.
What are District Boundaries?
After a long campaign by advocates, this amendment granted women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
some states refuse to accept these specific, state-issued IDs, even if they are from a public, state-funded university.
This civil rights leader helped organize voting rights campaigns and marches.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
These tests were used in the South to prevent many African Americans from voting, even though they were often unfairly managed.
Gerrymandering is most often used to influence the results of these.
What are Elections?
This 1965 law banned literacy tests and authorized federal oversight of voter registration in areas with a history of discrimination.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Recent laws in states like Utah and South Dakota intend to restrict registration by requiring physical, documentary proof of this legal status.
What is a U.S. citizenship?
This event brought over 200,000 people to Washington, D.C., to advocate for civil rights and equal rights, including voting rights.
What is the March on Washington?
Southern states sometimes used this as a requirement, which charged citizens money before they could vote.
What is a Poll Tax?
Gerrymandering can make it harder for voters to have an equal voice in governement.
What is Fair representation?
This era of the 1950s and 1960s led to big voting rights reforms, including the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the removal of many barriers to African American voting.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
Modern legal battles over whether Washington D.C. or state capitals should set election rules reflect the constitutional debate over this principle of shared and divided power.
What is Federalism?
This civil rights organization continues to advocate for voting rights and challenges voting restrictions in court.
What is NAACP?