1. Disenfranchisement

2. In order to vote in America in the early 1800s, what did you have to have or be?

3. Disenfranchisement
the state of being deprived of a right or privilege, especially the right to vote.

4. What groups in American history have been denied equal rights?

5. Native Americans Carlisle School in Pennsylvania
-Native American children were sent here to learn how to be “American.”
-Forced to speak English and abandon their native dress and ways.
-Was not until the Snyder Act of 1924 that Native Americans were allowed to vote.

6. Japanese-American Internment
On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans from the West Coast--where the majority of Japanese Americans lived, outside of Hawaii.
Why did the President decide to do this?
What crimes had the
Japanese-Americans committed?