| A | B |
|---|
| 13th Amendment | Amendment that outlawed slavery |
| 14th Amendment | Amendment that defines citizenship, grants citizenship to former slaves, defines voters as males 21 or older |
| 15th Amendment | Amendment that makes it illegal for the government to deny someone the right to vote based on their race |
| 19th Amendment | Amendment that grants women the right to vote |
| 24th Amendment | Amendment that made poll taxes illegal as a condition for voting |
| 26th Amendment | Amendment that lowers the minimum voting age to 18 |
| amendment | a change to the U.S. Constitution |
| Civil Rights | the rights belonging to citizens; refers to the basic rights to be free from unequal treatment based on race/gender/disability |
| discrimination | unfair treatment |
| literacy test | a test used to determine whether or not someone was eligible to register to vote |
| poll tax | a fee required to vote |
| prohibit | to forbid or disallow |
| segregation | the separation of people |
| states' rights | a power or issue for individual states to determine |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| Voting Rights Act 1965 | a federal law that banned race discrimination in voting practices by federal, state, and local governments |
