Chapter 8

people who partcipat ein politics

uniform govenrment-issued ballot cast in secret used to reduce voting fraud associated with party -printed ballots

Allows people who did not pass literacy tests of pay poll tax to vote if their ancestors voted before 1867

a way that the south barred blacks from voting, one is required to be literate to vote

another way southerners barred blacks from voting, a tax citizens had to pay to vote

People who have registered with their state sto vote

people who are at least the minimum age requirment for voting, not necessarily registered voters

Southern states would have democratic primaries, which only allowed whites to vote and were basically the deciding factor in who got the state's vote