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an exemption in a law for a certain group based on previous conditions. (McGraw-Hill)

]]> 2016-11-15 15:51:59 UTC https://padlet.com/myiahkelley/6fveqs0s3vdt/wish/137774604 myiahkelley https://padlet.com/myiahkelley/6fveqs0s3vdt/wish/137775046 The grandfather clause provided that only voters whose grandfathers had voted before 1867 were eligible to vote without paying a certain tax or passing a literacy test. (McGraw-Hill)]]> 2016-11-15 15:52:54 UTC https://padlet.com/myiahkelley/6fveqs0s3vdt/wish/137775046 myiahkelley https://padlet.com/myiahkelley/6fveqs0s3vdt/wish/137775554 Usually amounting to a dollar or two, citizens had to pay a poll tax before they could vote. (McGraw-Hill)]]> 2016-11-15 15:53:52 UTC https://padlet.com/myiahkelley/6fveqs0s3vdt/wish/137775554 myiahkelley https://padlet.com/myiahkelley/6fveqs0s3vdt/wish/137776016 The Voting Rights Acts resulted in a dramatic increase in African American voter registration. In 1960 only 29 percent of all African Americans in the South were registered. By 2000, the figure had risen to more than 65 percent. (McGraw-Hill)]]> 2016-11-15 15:54:48 UTC https://padlet.com/myiahkelley/6fveqs0s3vdt/wish/137776016 myiahkelley https://padlet.com/myiahkelley/6fveqs0s3vdt/wish/137776532 Within a few years of the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, more than 1,000 African Americans were elected to political office.  (McGraw-Hill)]]> 2016-11-15 15:55:47 UTC https://padlet.com/myiahkelley/6fveqs0s3vdt/wish/137776532 myiahkelley https://padlet.com/myiahkelley/6fveqs0s3vdt/wish/137776989 Beginning in the mid-1800s, women organized to fight for their right to vote. Groups of women suffragists held meetings, gave lectures, wrote articles and pamphlets, marched, and lobbied for a constitutional amendment providing them the right to vote. Women held vigils and hunger strikes. (McGraw-Hill)]]> 2016-11-15 15:56:41 UTC https://padlet.com/myiahkelley/6fveqs0s3vdt/wish/137776989 myiahkelley https://padlet.com/myiahkelley/6fveqs0s3vdt/wish/137777833 The Twenty-sixth Amendment, which was ratified in 1971, ended this debate, lowering the voting age to 18 in every state.  (McGraw-Hill)]]> 2016-11-15 15:58:04 UTC https://padlet.com/myiahkelley/6fveqs0s3vdt/wish/137777833 myiahkelley https://padlet.com/myiahkelley/6fveqs0s3vdt/wish/137778197 a special election in which voters can vote to approve or repeal the laws passed by the legislature. (McGraw-Hill)]]> 2016-11-15 15:58:53 UTC https://padlet.com/myiahkelley/6fveqs0s3vdt/wish/137778197