Challenges to the 15th Amendment: The Literacy Test
1. What people or symbols do you see in the cartoon? What do the people or symbols represent? How do you know what they mean?
2. How would it make you feel if you had to take a literacy test to vote?
3. What is significant about the man pointing at the sign posted on the wall behind him?
2. How would it make you feel if you had to take a literacy test to vote?
3. What is significant about the man pointing at the sign posted on the wall behind him?
Challenges to the 15th Amendment: The Poll Tax
1. What is preventing the citizens from voting in the cartoon?
2. How do you think the citizens feel about not being able to vote?
3. What group of people in society would agree with the message of the cartoon?
2. How do you think the citizens feel about not being able to vote?
3. What group of people in society would agree with the message of the cartoon?