| A | B |
|---|
| black codes | stripped free blacks of the right to vote after Nat Turner's Rebellion |
| free, 21 years old, property owner, male | eligible voters before Nat Turner's Rebellion |
| free, white, 21, property owner, male | eligible to vote after Nat Turner's Rebellion but before the Jackson presidency |
| 15th Amendment | gave freed male slaves the right to vote |
| 19th Amendment | gave women the right to vote in 1919 |
| 26th Amendment | lowered the voting age to 18 |
| Vietnam and the draft | caused the passage of the 26th Amendment and the lowering of the drinking age |
| grandfather clause | allowed poor whites to vote during and after Reconstruction even if they could not pay the poll tax |
| poll tax | tax designed to keep African Americans from voting |
| literacy test | used by county clerks to prevent African Americans from voting |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | leader of the NWSA when the 19th Amendment was passed |
| free, white, 21, male | held voting rights after Andrew Jackson |
| prevented states from denying voting rights because of race | Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
| Reynolds v. Simms 1964 | Warren Court decision requiring "one man, one vote" |
| Elbridge Gerry | used redistricting to favor his party, gave his name to Gerrymandering |
| Gerrymander | to manipulate electoral districts to benefit one's party |
| 1964 effort by SNCC, SCLC, CORE and the NAACP to register black voters in Mississippi | Freedom Summer |
| civil disobedience, court challenges and state legislative action | strategies used by the women's suffrage movement to gain the vote |
| Susan B. Anthony | voted illegally in the 1872 presidential election |
| Seneca Falls Convention | worked for women's suffrage in 1848 |
