The Fight for the Right to Vote

What amendment lowered the voting age to 18?

• 20th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 26th Amendment

According to the property requirement for voting, during the colonial period, who could vote?

• all people over the age of 21

• white, male, property owners over the age of 21

• all male property owners over the age of 21

• all property owners over the age of 21

If something is ratified, it is

• delayed

• created

• denied

• approved

What did Andrew Jackson promote during the 1820s and 1830s?

• universal suffrage for white men

• universal suffrage for all citizens

• universal suffrage for women

• universal suffrage for all

Which Amendment states that a person's right to vote couldn't be denied based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude?

• 20th Amendment

• 26th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

What is a democracy?

• Rule of one such as a king or emperor

• Rule of a few such as noblemen

• Rule by citizens who elect people to represent them

• Rule by God

What is suffrage?

• to be in pain

• the right to vote

• to protest

• to run for office

Which amendment gave women the right to vote?

• 20th Amendment

• 26th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

Who won the electoral college in 1789 with 100% of the vote?

• Andrew Jackson

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

• John Adams

What reasons, in the late 1800s, kept African Americans from voting?

• intimidation

• poll taxes

• literacy tests

• all of the above