Disfranchisement Flashcards
1
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Enforcement Acts of 1870s
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2
Q
Expanding regional differences in turnout during the last quarter of the 19th century
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3
Q
Disfranchisement in Georgia
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4
Q
Decreasing numbers of Black registrants in Clarke County
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5
Q
Disfranchising techniques adopted around the turn of the 20th century and the means for their elimination
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- Poll taxes
- Literacy tests
- Understanding tests
- Good character tests
- White primary
- Intimidation
6
Q
Elimination of the disfranchising techniques
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7
Q
Reasons that efforts at disfranchisement late in the 19th century were not blocked
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- Judiciary willingly tolerated discriminatory actions by southern states
- Many northerners lost interest in protecting Black voters
- Northerners who had invested in the South wanted stability and therefore allowed southerners to disfranchise Blacks
- Members of Congress who had supported Radical Reconstruction had left so that the Senate did not pass the Lodge Force Bill and repealed provisions of the Enforcement Acts
- US became an imperialist power by winning the Spanish – American War
- Social Darwinism
- Republicans did not need the support of southern Black Republicans to win the presidency and congressional majorities
