Taking away a person's ability to vote is referred to as

The correct answer is disfranchisement.

Explanation: Originally only white men with property could vote. Later all white men could vote, then women, then African Americans, then Native Americans and now anyone of voting age has the right to vote- although there are still stumbling blocks in some parts of our country.

two months after his defeat of napoleon bonaparte's colonial forces, jean-jacques dessalines proclaims the independence of saint-domingue, renaming it haiti after its original arawak name. in 1791, a slave revolt erupted on the french colony, and toussaint-louverture, a former slave, took control of the rebels.