Question

A statement in registration laws allowing people who do NOT meet registration requirements to vote if they or their ancestors had voted before 1867:

A) Suffrage Covenant
B) Ancestral Privilege
C)Grandfather Clause ​

Answer 1

C.) Grandfather Clause

grandfather clause, statutory or constitutional device enacted by seven Southern states between 1895 and 1910 to deny suffrage to African Americans. It provided that those who had enjoyed the right to vote prior to 1866 or 1867, and their lineal descendants, would be exempt from recently enacted educational, property, or tax requirements for voting.