Topic 4 lesson 4

Formally extended suffrage to African Americans

• 15 amendment

• 13 amendment

• 26 amendment

• 19 amendment

26th amendment

• Extend suffrage to woman

• Suffrage to African American

• Voting age lowered to 18

• Freedom of press

Match the following

• Outlaws poll taxes in national elections

• 24 amendment
• Extends suffrage to African American

• 15 amendment
• Voting age lowered to 18

• 26 amendment

• extends suffrage to woman

• 19 amendment

The percentage of elegible voters who can actually vote

• Literacy test

• Poll tax

• Vote turnout rate

• Suffrage

An exception to the tax that stated that voters whose grandfathers had voted before 1867 were automatically elegible to vote.

• Poll tax

• Literacy test

• Voter turnout rate

• Grandfather clause

It was a fee that citizens had to pay in order to vote. It was an obstacle for poor African American. Southern states protected white people from this.

Method used to block African American from voting. They must pass the test to vote. It was very difficult

• Vote amendment

• Absentee ballot

• Literacy test

• Grandfather clause.

Ways to vote are:

• In person

• Absentee ballots

• Online

• Early vote

Absentee ballots

• A type of ballot that allows voters to cast their vote without going to a polling place.

• A type of ballot that doesn’t allow voters to cast their vote without going to a polling place.

• A type of ballot that allows voters to cast their vote online.

• A type of ballot that allows voters to cast their vote at a polling place.

In most states voters can cast a ballot in person prior to Election Day

• In person

• Absentee ballot

• Early vote

• Voter turnout rate