AP GoPo Unit 5: Political Participation

States that citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or precious condition of servitude (1870)

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 24th Amendment

• 26th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

Amendment that lowered the voting age to 18 in Federal and state elections (1971)

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 24th Amendment

• 26th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections, states you may not be denied the right to vote based on sex

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 24th Amendment

• 26th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

Passed in 1913, this amendment to the Constitution calls for the direct election of senators by the voters instead of their election by state legislatures.

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 24th Amendment

• 26th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1964) that banned the paying of a poll tax or any other tax as a prerequisite to vote in national elections, later applied to state elections through SCOTUS ruling

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 24th Amendment

• 26th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

Supporting a party by voting for candidates from one political party for all public offices across the ballot

• Rational-Choice Voting

• Retrospective Voting

• Prospective Voting

• Party-Line Voting

Voting based on what is perceived to be in the citizen's individual interest

• Rational-Choice Voting

• Retrospective Voting

• Prospective Voting

• Party-Line Voting

Voting to decide whether the party or candidate in power should be re-elected based on the recent past

• Rational-Choice Voting

• Retrospective Voting

• Prospective Voting

• Party-Line Voting

Voting based on predictions of how a party or candidate will perform in the future

• Rational-Choice Voting

• Retrospective Voting

• Prospective Voting

• Party-Line Voting

Invalidated the use of any test or device to deny the vote and authorized federal examiners to order the registration of blacks in states and counties where fewer than 50 percent of the voting-age population were registered or had voted in the last presidential election, also provided criminal penalties for interfering with the right to vote

• Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002

• Baker v. Carr (1962)

• Shaw v. Reno (1993)

• Voting Rights Act of 1965