Political Participation
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8 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Voting-age Population | citizens who are eligible to vote after reaching the minimum age requirement |
| Registered Voters | people who are registered to vote |
| Literacy Test | a requirement that citizens pass a literacy test in order to register to vote |
| Poll Tax | a requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote |
| Grandfather Clause | a clause in registration laws allowing people who do not meet registratin requirements to vote if they or their ancestors had voted before 1867 |
| White Primary | the practice of keeping blacks from voting in the southern states' primaries through arbitrary use of registration requirements and intimidation |
| Australian Ballot | a government-printed ballot of uniform dimensions to be cast in secret that many states adopted around 1890 to reduce voting fraud associated with party-printed ballots cast in public |
| Activists | people who tend to participate in all forms of politics |
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