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Module 5 Short Responses – Question 1 In the space below, specify which historical lens you'd like to use for this exercise.

For this exercise I will use the political lens.

Module 5 Short Responses – Question 2 Next, formulate a research question about the civil rights movement (historical time from 1954 – 1968), using the lens you've chosen.

After the fifteenth amendment was ratified, the south continued to impose disenfranchisement toward African Americans. How did the southern states eventually eliminate these disenfranchisements, and what policies were put in place to help eliminate them?

Module 5 Short Responses – Question 3 First, go back and review the research question you developed in Step 1. For Step 2, first name two different primary sources that you might use to answer that question. Be as specific as you can. Your primary sources should be found using the Shapiro Library.

One primary source I can use is The Voting Rights Act of 1965. This Act removed the polling tax. This act also removed literacy tests required for voting. Another primary source I can use is Smith v. Allwright. This court case found it unconstitutional for states to deny voters based on the skin color.

Module 5 Short Responses – Question 4 Next, name two different secondary sources you could use to answer your research question. Again, be as specific as you can. Your secondary sources should be found using the Shapiro Library.

One secondary source I could use is the "History and Impact of the Voting Rights Act: Enforcing The Fifteenth Amendment." This source briefly discusses what was in the sections of the amendments did. Another secondary source I could use is The Beginning of the End for Authoritarian Rule in America: Smith v. Allwright and the Abolition of the White Primary in the Deep South, 1944-

1948. This article discusses the ruling of the case and the impact it had on "authoritarian white enclaves" of the southern states.

Module 5 Short Responses – Question 5 Construct a thesis statement that provides an answer to the research question you posed in Step 1. Base your response on the historical evidence that's been presented in this course so far, as well as any research you may have done on your own.

After the fifteenth amendment was ratified, the southern states began to implement different requirements for voters, and these requirements were still disenfranchisements towards African Americans. Over time new policies and acts were put in place to eliminate these disenfranchisements, and provide equal voting rights for all Americans.

Module 5 Short Responses – Question 6 Name three specific historical events that can be considered contributory causes of the passage of the Voting Rights Act. Briefly explain why you believe each of these events contributed to the passage of the Act.

Three historical events that were contributory causes of the passage of the voting rights act are The fifteenth amendment, The murder of voting rights activists, and literacy tests required in the south.

Module 5 Short Responses – Question 7 Based on what you read about the passage of the Voting Rights Act on Page 1 of this learning block, name one event that was part of the course of this bill's passage by Congress.

One event that was part of the course of this bill's passage by Congress was the fifteenth amendment.

Module 5 Short Responses – Question 8 Name three specific consequences caused by the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

1: a surge in voter registration.

2: White-dominated state legislators responded to the Voting Rights Act by enacting new measures to limit the effectiveness of African-American voting. 3: the Voting Rights Act has led to sharply increased representation of African Americans in Congress, state legislatures, and local offices.

Module 5 Short Responses – Question 9 One of these scholars relied heavily on evidence about the substance of today's political debate. Which scholar was that? What sort of evidence did he use?

The scholar who relied heavily on evidence about the substance of today's political debate is David Kennedy. Evidence: These issues elude the capacity of a political system designed to reconcile differences and have many of the properties that slavery had in the nineteenth century. They include abortion and gay marriage, to take the two most conspicuous examples, though one might easily add issues of war and peace.

Module 5 Short Responses – Question 10 One of these scholars relied heavily on evidence about the political process. Which scholar was that? What sort of evidence did he use?

The scholar who relied heavily on evidence about the political process is Richard Pildes. Evidence: At the national level, the progressive strands on racial issues that had existed in the Republican Party diminished, to be replaced by a more conservative stance on racial issues, while the Democratic Party at the national level became the party of racial liberalism.

Module 5 Short Responses – Question 11 1. What is the topic of this essay? Does the author make it clear in the introduction? 2. What is the author's thesis? 3. What kind of sources and evidence do you think the author will use to support his thesis?

1: The topic of this essay is High School Activism and the Civil Rights Movement in Charleston. The author does make this topic clear in the intro. 2: The authors thesis is, "By examining the effort to desegregate public facilities through the

lens of the first sit-in in Charleston, this article will illustrate how a small, committed group of local high school students and teachers played an integral, though overlooked, role in the civil rights movement." 3: the author will use primary sources from the participants and witnesses of this event in Charleston to support this thesis....