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One would have thought that would be a sensible requirement, however in most democracies all but the nobility, serving criminals and the mad can vote.
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What exam that people had to pass in order to vote?
You have to take a literacy test to be in order to vote
Literacy Tests?
This refers to state government practices of administering tests to prospective voters purportedly to test their literacy in order to vote. In practice, these tests were intended to disenfranchise African-Americans.
This made literacy test illegal?
A literacy test has never been illegal in and of itself. Requiring voters to pass literacy tests in order to vote was declared unconstitutional. It is unconstitutional because all citizens have the right to vote, regardless of their level of literacy. But the main point was that southern states used these laws as a method to prevent black voters from participating.
How do the amendments demonstrate the ability of the Constitution to adapt to a change in attitude about that should have the right to vote?
the way the amendments demonstrate the ability of the constitution to adapt to in attitude about who should vote is by doing it.
Requiring this was unfair to people who wished to register to vote?
Literacy Test (NovaNET)
What country was the first one in South America to grant women the right to vote?
Brazil and Uruguay in 1932. Ecuador recognized womens right to vote in 1929, but only provided that the women could prove literacy.
What is literacy tax and poll tax?
A poll tax was an amount of money that a person was forced to pay in order to vote. After the Civil War in the South, poll tax laws were created in order to prevent freed slaves from voting
How did poll tax and literacy test keep African American from voting?
they had to pay to vote
What is a person's ability to read or write that is no longer used to qualify someone to vote?
literacy
What did the government finally have to do in order to ensure that all people could vote without having hurdles in their way?
The government turned to the courts. The courts placed injunctions on cities that were using gerrymandering, poll taxes, and literacy tests. The injunctions were a court order that forbid cities from stopping minorities from voting, regardless of literacy, financial or where they live.
What did the government finally have to do in order to ensure that all people could vote without having hurdles in the way?
The government turned to the courts. The courts placed injunctions on cities that were using gerrymandering, poll taxes, and literacy tests. The injunctions were a court order that forbid cities from stopping minorities from voting, regardless of literacy, financial or where they live.
What was the purpose of these literacy tests?
In the late 19 century, the United States government allowed officials at voting placed to administer literacy tests, primarily to people of color, in order to vote. This was done to keep many black people and some poorer white people from voting.
