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| voting rights were left up to the ___ at the ___ ___. |
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| states; constitutional convention |
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| during the pre civil war era there were many state restrictions on voting such as ____,___,____, and ___. |
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| race, gender, propert and religious |
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| over the course of american history more admendments have been added to the constitution extending the ___to ___(___) than any other subject. |
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| changed the electoral college? |
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| eliminated race as a barrier to voting? |
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| began the direct election of us senetors? |
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| removed gender as a voting restriction? |
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| DC gets 3 electoral college votes? |
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| eliminates poll tax for federal elections only? |
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| extends right to vote for everyone at age 18? |
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| supreme courts first voting rights case under the 15th amendment and the enforcement of 1870? |
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| a kentucky electoral official had refused to register an african american vote in a municipal election and was indicted under two sections of the 1870 act? |
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| in us v. reese the court held that the 15th amendment__ ___ confer the rights of ___ but ___ exclusion on ___ grounds. |
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| did not; suffrage; prohibited; racial |
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| the us v. reese case it was dominated by ___ and ___ ___. |
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| lincoln and grant republicans |
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| a group of 5 similar cases consilidated into one issue for the united states supreme court to review? |
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| the decision in the civil right cases held that ___ lacked to constitutional auuthority under the enforcement provisions of the ___ amendment to outlaw racial discrimination by private individuals and organizations raher than state and local governments. |
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| in the civil right cases more particulary the court held that the ___ ___ ___was unconstitutional. |
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| established a racial id in the south? |
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| ____-____ virtually no restrictions passed. |
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| reconstruction ends in ___. |
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| ___ movement threatned to establish a class based id in the south. |
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| real targets were ___ ___. |
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| abolished the literacy test ? |
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| voting rights act of 1965 |
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| intended and unintended consqeuquences of voting rights act of 1965: black voting turnout ___, ___ __ get elected to southern legislatures and to congress for the first time since construction, ___ ___ ___ had to apoligize, blacks started voting for ___, ___ ___ left the democratic party due to support of VRA. |
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| tripled; african american; southern white democrats; democrats; southern whites |
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| 1832- 1964 a majority of ___ __ have vote for the democratic presidental candiate every single time |
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| 1965 ___ __ __ had passed. |
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| 1968-2012 a majority of southern whites vote for the democratic ___ times. |
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| the supreme court extended the ___ amdendment to prevent states from using __ ___ for state and local elections in 1966. |
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| state legislatures must draw us house district lines so that each district has about the same number of people in it(state population divided by # of districts)? |
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| state legislatures must draw state legislative districts lines so that each state legislative district has about equal # of people in them? |
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| the impact of the decisions made in baker v. carr and reynolds v. sims was to greatly increase the reprensation of people living in ___ at the expense of folks living in __ __. |
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| voting rights act was extended in ___ and expanded the number of states covered and the number of groups protected. |
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| south reacted to the voting right acts by instituting ___ ___, engaging in racial ___ which were both ruled as unconstitutional. |
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| gerrymandering methods are ___ and ___. |
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| drawing district lines so that they intersect in a minority area? |
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| drawing district lines so minorities are stacked into a district which is almost 100% minority? |
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| stacking makes the other districts more ___ which is why the republician party in the 1990s pushed for the creation of ____ party. |
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| republican; majority-minority |
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| districts where a majority of residents are minorities |
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| majority-minority districts |
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| republican and minority districts formed a unlikely coalition in the ___ to push for more minority districts. |
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| florida 2000: the florida prison population ____ in the 1990s most of the increase was due to war on ___. under florida law anyone with a ___ ___ record loses their right to vote and must petition the governor to have those rights restored. |
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| doubled; drugs; felony criminal |
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| ___ ___ is elected governor in 1988. when asked what he will do for florida's black community as governor his response was? |
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| JEB Bush; probaly nothing |
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| ___ ___ becomes floridas secretary of state and immediately hires datatel corp to compare list of released felons with the voter registration list and remove anybody from the voter regirsitation list whose name was 80% of the name of a released felon. |
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| founded that at least ___ ___ werre established by the florida state police b/w minority areas and voting precints. |
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| gore's mistake was to ask for a manual recount in only a few heavily ___ counties instead of a ___ recount. |
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| 3 days b4 the supreme court heard the decision they ordered the ___ be stopped pending their opinion then said its not enough time for a recount. |
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