POLI 101 Lecture 5: POLI 320 - January 22, 2015.docx
3 Feb 2015
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Constitutional amendments (cid:224) 13 th amendment: abolished slavery (this was done so that the supreme court could not override it because it was written into the constitution) (cid:224) 14 th amendment: granted citizenship to former slaves (cid:224) 15 th amendment: guaranteed the right to vote (this was done so that no state could pass state laws prohibiting former slaves from voting) Jim crow laws were adopted by southern states in the 1890"s (cid:224) mandated segregation in public schools and accommodations (cid:224) restricted voting rights through white primary, poll taxes and literacy tests (which severely restricted black citizens from voting because they didn"t have access to education and could thus not pass the tests) (cid:224) instituted grandfathers clauses for poor and illiterate whites (meant that whites who didn"t pass the tests could still vote if their grandfather"s had the right to vote)
