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IWBAT analyze the 24 th Amendment, Literacy Tests , Voting Rights Act

IWBAT analyze the 24 th Amendment, Literacy Tests , Voting Rights Act. Poll Taxes. A fee charged for voting Most whites did not have to pay the tax if they could prove their grandfather was able to vote Were legal until 1966. $1 in 1917, $18 today. Literacy Tests.

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IWBAT analyze the 24 th Amendment, Literacy Tests , Voting Rights Act

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  1. IWBAT analyze the 24th Amendment, Literacy Tests, Voting Rights Act

  2. Poll Taxes • A fee charged for voting • Most whites did not have to pay the tax if they could prove their grandfather was able to vote • Were legal until 1966

  3. $1 in 1917, $18 today

  4. Literacy Tests • Test that had to be passed to prove you could read and write

  5. "Eddikashunqualifukashun. The Black man orter be eddikated afore he kin vote with us Wites, signed Mr. Solid South."

  6. Voting Rights Act • States could not change voting laws without the approval of the government.

  7. 24th Amendment • The right of citizens of the United States to vote in election, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.

  8. Let’s take the Literacy Test!

  9. Part A • SECTION 20: That no person shall be imprisoned for debt.

  10. SECTION 260: The income arising from the sixteenth section trust fund, the surplus revenue fund, until it is called for by the United States government, and the funds enumerated in sections 257 and 258 of this Constitution, together with a special annual tax of thirty cents on each one hundred dollars of taxable property in this state, which the legislature shall levy, shall be applied to the support and maintenance of the public schools, and it shall be the duty of the legislature to increase the public school fund from time to time as the necessity therefor and the condition of the treasury and the resources of the state may justify; provided, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to authorize the legislature to levy in any one year a greater rate of state taxation for all purposes, including schools, than sixty-five cents on each one hundred dollars' worth of taxable property; and provided further, that nothing herein contained shall prevent the legislature from first providing for the payment of the bonded indebtedness of the state and interest thereon out of all the revenue of the state.

  11. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/voting_start.html

  12. Exit Ticket • What were poll taxes? • What were literacy tests? • What did the 24th amendment do?

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