American Government: Chapter 6 Voters & Voter Behavior

Include how you view candidates, parties and major political issues that can influence your voting

• Poll books

• Political socialization

• Franchise

• Psychological factors

Which has been a trend in the history of American voting rights?

• Less and less people granted suffrage

• More and more people granted suffrage

• Higher and higher minimum voting age

• Increase in the tax you have to pay to vote

Which describes a typical nonvoter?

• Religious, educated, and unemployed

• Unmarried, young, and unskilled

• Married and living on farms

• Divorced and uneducated

Which correctly describes the only group allowed to vote in 1789?

• White and African American males in northern states

• Northerners

• white, male property owners

• Southerners

For which office are more votes regularly cast than for any other?

• Governor

• President

• U.S. representative

• Mayor

Who was granted the right to vote with the ratification of the 15th amendment?

• African Americans

• Women

• Men

• 16 year-olds

Which of the following is not a universal requirement by all states for any person who wants to vote?

• Citizenship

• Religion

• Residence

• Age

Which of the following were rules placed on African Americans to deny them the right to vote?

• Pass a literacy test

• Grandfather Clause

• Pay a poll tax

• All of these

Personal characteristics from oneself or an outside source that can influence your voting

• Psychological factors

• Sociological factors

• Outside sources

• Political suffrage

Do not believe that they or their votes can have any real impact on what government does

• Political downfall

• Election gap

• Political efficacy

• Poll franchise