Progressive Social

  • literacy test

    literacy test
    A test given to persons to prove they can read and write before being allowed to register to vote
  • Civil Disobedience

    Civil Disobedience
    A nonviolent, public refusal to obey allegedly unjust laws.
  • prohibition

    prohibition
    A law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
  • poll tax

    poll tax
    A requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote