https://padlet.com/s_saoronn_oeurn/7s1el530qwsh History of Voting Rights in the US: Restriction and Expansion en-us 2018-10-05 20:19:20 UTC 2018-10-05 21:12:33 UTC hello@padlet.com s_saoronn_oeurn https://padlet.com/s_saoronn_oeurn/7s1el530qwsh/wish/289816644 The Fifteenth Amendment to the US Constitution prevents states from denying the right to vote on grounds of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".

All the Africans Americans in the north can vote, but majority of Africans lived in the south.

]]> 2018-10-05 20:29:40 UTC https://padlet.com/s_saoronn_oeurn/7s1el530qwsh/wish/289816644 s_saoronn_oeurn https://padlet.com/s_saoronn_oeurn/7s1el530qwsh/wish/289824061 After Reconstruction the twelve-year period of rebuilding that followed the American Civil War. Many southern states passed poll taxes in an effort to keep African Americans from voting.]]> 2018-10-05 21:04:52 UTC https://padlet.com/s_saoronn_oeurn/7s1el530qwsh/wish/289824061 s_saoronn_oeurn https://padlet.com/s_saoronn_oeurn/7s1el530qwsh/wish/289825310 Literacy tests, along with poll taxes, residency and property restrictions and extra-legal activities (violence, intimidation) were all used to deny suffrage to African Americans.]]> 2018-10-05 21:12:04 UTC https://padlet.com/s_saoronn_oeurn/7s1el530qwsh/wish/289825310