The grandfather clause stated that any person who had a father or grandfather that was bound in slavery was unable to vote. Because of the lineage of African Americans at the time, there was a very small amount of the African American population who didn’t have ancestry like this. This was the government’s way of limiting the voting rights of African Americans.
<span>After Ferguson allowed "separate but equal", Jim Crow laws, which were a system of laws meant to discriminate against African Americans, spread across the U.S.</span>
1) it brought a lot of young people to exercise their rights as freedom of speech and to protest. Many young adults believed we shouldn’t be in the war. 2) Young men protested that if they were old enough to get drafted into the war, they should be old enough to vote.
