Ch6.1 and 6.2- Voters and Voter Qualification

Which of the following gave black men the right to vote in 1870?

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

This war helped convince the nation to give women the right to vote (around 1919).

• Vietnam War

• World War I

• World War II

• Civil War

This level of government has the constitutional power to run elections and make rules for elections.

• State Government

• National Government

"Disenfranchise" means

• to give a person the right to vote

• to take away a person's right to vote

• wrongfully arresting a person

• to have one's citizenship removed due to committing a particularly bad crime

This amendment gave women the right to vote (passed just after WWI).

• 13th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 21st Amendment

Corrupt groups that tried to control politics and elections from 'behind the scenes,' often to get political favors and lucrative government contracts for their business.

• Political Machines

• Political Parties

• Congresspeople

• High School Government Teachers

The period after the Civil War, when several amendments were passed to try to correct the problems of slavery and racism in US government, was called

• Revolutionary Period

• Roaring Twenties

• Reconstruction Era

• Cold War Era

Which of the following was outlawed with the 24th Amendment?

• Literacy Tests

• Grandfather Clauses

• Poll Taxes

• 18 Year Olds Voting

"DC Got Three" (electoral college votes) with which constitutional amendment?

• 22nd Amendment

• 23rd Amendment

• 24th Amendment

• 25th Amendment

The ________ Amendment gave 18 year old the right to vote in 1971 (after the Vietnam War... "old enough to fight, old enough to vote").

• 13th

• 19th

• 23rd

• 26th