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Disenfranchisement

GCSE History · key term

Disenfranchisement

Definition

The removal or denial of a person’s ability to vote.

Used by OCR

How each exam board covers it

OCR GCSE History A · J410

Paper 1

Revise: African Americans and the Jim Crow Era

OCR History A past papers

OCR GCSE History B · J411

Paper 3

The removal or denial of the right to vote.
In subsequent decades, Southern governments consolidated segregation and disenfranchisement.
Revise: Reconstruction

OCR History B past papers

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