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List 3 obstacles that were used to keep African Americans from voting in the south?
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When did African American gain true voting rights in America?
African Americans gained true voting rights in America with the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This legislation enforced the constitutional right to vote for all African Americans by prohibiting discriminatory voting practices, such as literacy tests and poll taxes, that had been used to suppress their vote.
What was it that most Progressives paid little attention to?
Conditions for African Americans in the south -apex
What Sercret organization that terrorized African Americans in the South?
KKK
Did the voting rights act of 1965 give African Americans the right to vote?
At the end of the civil war they were given the right, but Jim Crow laws prevented it until the voting rights act stated that no person shall be denied the right to vote. Today there is a movement on the change that and new measures are being instituted by states to curb voting of certain groups of people. This is taking the right to vote by all back 60 or more years and is against the rights of all.
What did African Americans leave behind during the great migration?
African Americans left the south. Most African-Americans had remained in the south following emancipation. However, Jim Crow racism, made life difficult for them. As a result the Great Migration to the Northern cities occurred.
Most African-Americans who moved to the north from the south found?
Jobs on railroads or in factories
What prevented the millions of African Americans from voting in the south?
White people
How did the policies of Reconstruction Era affect the African Americans?
They provided protections for African Americans. The policies increased their voting rights. Some of the policies placed African Americans in elected official positions in the South.
What was the Freedom Summer about?
The Freedom Summer was a public campaign to help register African Americans to vote in the deep south in the summer of 1964.
What did it mean for states to disenfranchise in the South after the Civil War?
To take steps to prevent African Americans from voting
Voting restrictions placed on African Americans in the south?
They did it in order to keep political power away from minoritys
Why did African Americans voting in the south decline drastically by the late 1800?
by the end of the 1800's the laws and the constant threat of violence caused African American voting to decline drastically.
How did the policies of the reconstruction era affect Americans?
They provided protections for African Americans. The policies increased their voting rights. Some of the policies placed African Americans in elected official positions in the South.
How did the south keep African-Americans from voting?
they made the poll tax law, literacy lawand the grandfather clause to prevent MOST freed black men from voting
What did most Progressives pay little attention to regarding African Americans?
Conditions for African Americans in the south.
What was the purpose of the Jim crow laws?
The purpose of the Jim Crow laws were to limit and restrict the voting freedom of African-Americans.
What was Benjamin Harrison's major contribution while in office?
Benjamin Harrison was the United States' 23rd president. While in office he supported voting rights of African Americans in the South and signed the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890.
