Voting Rights Amendments

Voting Rights Amendments

Multiple Choice

What age did the 26th amendment lower the voting age to?

• 21

• 18

• 16

• 25

Multiple Choice

The 19th Amendment expanded voting rights to which group of people?

• Women

• 18 year olds

• All freed slaves

• All Americans

Multiple Choice

How did the 24th Amendment expand voting rights to Americans?

• States could charge poll taxes in elections

• Literacy tests were required so minorities learned to read

• It made poll taxes illegal

• It did nothing to expand voting rights

Multiple Choice

Which term is the best meaning of "suffrage"?

• the right for women to protest

• the right to vote in elections

• citizenship

• freedom

Multiple Choice

What amendment provided that Washington, DC be allowed representatives in the Electoral College?

• 24th Amendment

• 21st Amendment

• 23rd Amendment

• 26th Amendment

Multiple Choice

Which amendment gave all men the right to vote regardless of race or color or whether they had been slaves?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Multiple Choice

What amendment set the national voting age at 18?

• 26th Amendment

• 25th Amendment

• 23rd Amendment

• 19th Amendment

Multiple Choice

Which amendment did people not have to pay a tax, called a poll tax, in order to vote?

• 21st Amendment

• 24th Amendment

• 20th Amendment

• 22nd Amendment

Multiple Choice

Which amendment gave women the right to vote? It's also called women's suffrage.

• 24th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 15th Amendment