Civil and Voting Rights Amendments

What was the impact of the 13th Amendment of the Constitution?

• It enforced segregation
• It abolished poll taxes
• It made slavery illegal
• It defined citizenship

Which term is the best meaning of "suffrage"?

• the right for women to protest
• the right to vote in elections
• citizenship
• freedom

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

How does the 14th Amendment protect individual rights?

• It made slavery illegal
• Women could now vote in all elections
• It made poll taxes illegal
• It defined citizenship so all citizens have the same rights

Which of the following responses best supports the 15th Amendment of the Constitution?

• A person cannot be denied the right to vote based on gender.
• A person cannot be denied the right to vote based on race.
• A person cannot be denied the right to vote based on age.
• No one can be denied the right to vote. 

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

• Women
• 18 year olds
• All freed slaves
• All Americans

The first of the Reconstruction Amendments, this amendment went hand in hand with President Lincoln's wishes in the Emancipation Proclamation.

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th
• 19th

People like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are credited with fighting for this, which would be granted by the 19th amendment. 

• Abolition of slavery
• Voting age lowered
• Women's suffrage (right to vote)
• Free speech. 

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

• 21
• 18
• 16
• 25

After the slaves were freed, the question came up of how to handle their future in the United States. The 14th Amendment helped do so by: 

• Granting jobs to the newly freedmen. 
• Granting former slaves the right to vote. 
• Paying the former slaves money for their troubles. 
• Defining and protecting their citizenship in the United States