Impact of Voter Suppression and Segregation

________ had been wealthy before the Civil War and believed they were better than Black people.

• Bourbon Democrats

• Radical Republicans

• Union Loyalists

• Abolitionists

Their plan was to remove ________ voters and many more ________ voters because they might vote Republican.

• black

• white

• Hispanic

• Asian

They wanted only voters they could count on to vote ________.

• Democratic

• Republican

• Independent

• Libertarian

This is called voter ________.

• suppression

• registration

• participation

• education

One way they did this was the ________ which most Black and poor white voters could not afford. They often required a reading test as well.

• require voters to pay a tax in order to vote

• provide free transportation to polling stations

• offer incentives for voting

• allow voting by mail

The ________ allowed poor white men who couldn’t afford the tax or pass the reading test to vote if their father or grandfather had voted in the 1860 election.

• Grandfather Clause

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Suffrage Act

• Voting Rights Act

In 1892 George Washington Murray was elected to Congress, where he often spoke out against racism. He was known as the ________.

• Republican Black Eagle

• Democratic White Dove

• Libertarian Silver Fox

• Independent Golden Lion

________ is the separation of Black and white people.

• Segregation

• Integration

• Assimilation

• Unification

________ were created to allow for more segregation in the South.

• Jim Crow laws

• Civil Rights Act

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Voting Rights Act

________ is best known for building a generator to power his hometown’s mills.

• William C. Whitner

• Thomas Edison

• Nikola Tesla

• George Westinghouse