"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall

not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of

race, color, or previous condition of servitude."







[b]The above referenced text refers to the ___________ Amendment to the Constitution.[/b]

"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall

not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of

race, color, or previous condition of servitude."



[b]In addition to the above referenced amendment, what other amendment expanded suffrage for citizens in America?[/b]

[i](Tennessee Laws)

1866:Separate schools required for white and black children

1870: Penalty for intermarriage

between whites and blacks was labeled a felony, punishable by imprisonment in

the penitentiary from one to five years.

1875: Hotel keepers, carriers of

passengers and keepers of places of amusement have the right to control access and exclude persons as "that of any private person over his private

house."

1885: All well-behaved persons to be

admitted to theaters, parks, shows, or other public amusements, but also

declared that proprietors had the right to create separate accommodations for whites and Negroes.

1891: Railways to provide equal but

separate accommodations for the white and colored races. Penalty: Railroad

companies that failed to comply with law guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to fines from $100 to $500. Conductors could be fined from $25 to $50.

1901: Unlawful for any school or

college to permit white and colored persons to attend the same school. Penalty:$50 fine, or imprisonment from 30 days to six months, or both.

1932: Classified "Negro" as any person with any Negro blood.

1955: Separate buildings for black and white patients in hospitals for the insane. [/i]

 



[b]Following emancipation, former slaves often faced discrimination such as the above laws segregating them from society, known as __________________ laws.    [/b]

[i] "..."That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom....

[/i]



[i]And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.

[/i]

[i]And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. 



And I further declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions..."



             -Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation (1863)[/i]





[b]In his Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln:[/b]

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[b]This author refers to the 1876 Election as the "Fraud of the Century" because ________________.

[/b]