Voter suppression
What Voter suppression means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Exclusion of black voters through constitutional conventions and statutes using poll taxes, literacy tests, understanding clauses and grandfather clauses.
Exclusion of black voters through poll taxes, literacy tests and intimidation, so few could influence politics.
Topics that use Voter suppression
- Paper 3, Option 39.1: Civil rights and race relations in the USA, 1850–2009 - 2 The triumph of ‘Jim Crow’, 1883–c1900 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
- Paper 3, Option 39.1: Civil rights and race relations in the USA, 1850–2009 - 3 The New Deal and race relations, 1933–41 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Anti-lynching legislation
- Congressional power and seniority
- Economic change and racial inequality
- Federal relief and welfare
- Federal retreat from civil rights protection
- Grandfather clause
- Judicial endorsement of segregation and disenfranchisement
- Judicial interpretation and civil rights
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