The Declaration of Rights
In what year did the Virginia Convention ratify the Virginia Declaration of Rights?
1776
The Equal Suffrage League of Virginia was founded in ____ in Richmond
1909
After the founders wrote the Constitution, they needed nine states to ratify it before it became ___.
Law
What was the poll tax?
The poll tax was the centerpiece of Virginia's policy of restricting the right to vote, and all other former Confederate states employed it for the same purpose.
What was the Slave and the owner's name?
During the Revolutionary War in 1781, an enslaved African American man named Billy, owned by John Tayloe, was indicted for "feloniously and traitorously" joining the British.
Why was the Virginia Declaration of Rights created?
So the representatives for Virginia had to define the government of the new state.
The league sought to win____ the right to vote as a democratic right of tax-paying citizens.
Women
_____ ______ , who was the author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, wanted the Constitution to include guarantees for fundamental liberties that reflect on the development of a new nation after the Revolutionary War.
George Mason
What amendment outlawed the poll tax as a prerequisite for voting for federal elections?
The ratification on January 23, 1964, of the Twenty-fourth Amendment outlawed the poll tax as a prerequisite for voting in federal elections.
What was Billy tried for?
He was captured and tried for treason, yet pled not guilty and testified that he had been forced against his will on a British warship.
What did the Virginia Declaration of Rights declare?
It laid out the principles of this new government
The Equal Suffrage League of Virginia faced organized resistance in the form of the Virginia Association Opposed to _______ _______, founded in 1912.
Women Suffrage
____- ________ did not support the Constitution because they wanted stronger limits on the national government’s power.
Anti-Federalists
What year was the Federal Voting Rights Act ratified?
The Federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 also outlawed requiring prepayment of the poll tax as a qualification for voting.
Was Billy convicted?
He argued that he had never taken up arms on behalf of the king. However, Billy was convicted and sentenced to death.
Which convention ratified the Virginia Declaration of Right?
Fifth
Much of the anti suffragist rhetoric placed women's role within the ____ and often focused on the idea of separate spheres for women and men.
Home
Congress wrote twelve amendments but the states only passed __.
10
What was the name of the Supreme Court case that declared the poll tax was unconstitutional?
The ruling of the Supreme Court and the ruling in the 1966 Virginia case Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections declared the poll tax an unconstitutional burden on voting rights
What were the names of the two judges?
Within a week of the sentencing, two dissenting judges, Henry Lee and William Carr, argued to Governor Thomas Jefferson that a slave could not commit treason, since a slave did not constitute as a citizen.
What does the Virginia Declaration of Rights not cover?
Enslaved people
This broadside highlights the efforts of the Virginia Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage to tie the suffrage movement directly to ______.
Socialism
In _____ during the Constitutional Convention, tension rose out of the new addition to the Constitution.
1787
The ratification was on January 23, 1964
What was the final conclusion to Billy’s case?
Billy's life was spared and he received a pardon in June 1781, yet what happened to him after is not known.