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body of experts that produced a 41-volume study of immigration. The Commission recommended a literacy test and the possibility of annual quotas. Presidents Cleveland and Taft vetoed literacy tests in 1897 and 1913. President Wilson did the same in 1915 and 1917, but the test was passed over Wilson's
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When introduced in the 1890s, the literacy test was a device to restrict the total number of immigrants while not offending the large element of ethnic voters. The "old" immigration (British, Dutch, Irish, German, Scandinavian) had fallen off and was replaced by a "new" immigration from Italy,
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in the Southern United States. Literacy tests were typically administered by white clerks who could pass or fail a person at their discretion based on race. Illiterate whites were often permitted to vote without taking these literacy tests because of
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From the 1890s to the 1960s, many state governments administered literacy tests to prospective voters, to test their literacy in order to vote. The first state to establish literacy tests in the United States was Connecticut.
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As originally enacted, the Voting Rights Act also suspended the use of literacy tests in all jurisdictions in which less than 50% of voting-age residents were registered as of November 1, 1964, or had voted in the
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The first formal voter literacy tests were introduced in 1890. At first, whites were generally exempted from the literacy test if they meet alternate requirements that in practice excluded blacks, such as a
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Russia and other points in Southern and eastern Europe. The "old" immigrants were voters and strongly approved of restricting the "new" immigrants. The 1896 Republican platform called for a literacy test.
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could enforce Fourteenth Amendment rights—such as the right to vote—by prohibiting conduct it deemed to interfere with such rights, even if that conduct may not be independently unconstitutional.
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stated that literacy tests used as a qualification for voting in federal elections be administered wholly in writing and only to persons who had completed at least six years of formal education.
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took the lead in promoting literacy tests that would exclude illiterate immigrants, primarily Eastern Europe and countries that had national waters in the
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State legislatures employed literacy tests as part of the voter registration process starting in the late 19th century. Literacy tests, along with
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Corporate industry however, needed workers for its mines and factories and opposed any restrictions on immigration. In 1906, the
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This article is about citizenship and voting eligibility tests in the United States. For the standardized test in Ontario, see
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skills: their ability to read and write. Literacy tests have been administered by various governments, particularly to
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Lane, A. T. (1984). "American Trade Unions, Mass Immigration and the Literacy Test: 1900–1917".
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The Men and Women We Want: Gender, Race, and the Progressive Era Literacy Test Debate
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Between the 1850s and 1960s, literacy tests were used as an effective tool for
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that literacy tests did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment, in
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deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a
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To curtail the use of literacy tests, Congress enacted the
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criticizing the use of literacy tests. It shows "Mr.
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Harper's Weekly
Solid South
literacy
immigrants
disenfranchising
African Americans
grandfather clauses
White Australia policy
poll taxes
suffrage
African Americans
grandfather clause
good moral character
Lassiter v. Northampton County Board of Elections
U.S. Supreme Court
Equal Protection Clause
Fourteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Puerto Rico
Katzenbach v. Morgan

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