Voting Rights

When the Constitution was first written, who held the power to decide who could vote?

• President

• State Officials

• Supreme Court

• Congress

In the country's first election, most voters were:

• White men with property

• US citizens over 18

• Adults over 21

• White men over 21

Which of the following gave Black men the legal right to vote?

• The 14th Amendment

• The Reconstruction Amendments

• The Voting Rights Act of 1965

• The Bill of Rights

In which of these periods were the most Black Americans elected to office?

• During the American Revolution

• Right before the Civil War

• Following the Civil War

• During the Jim Crow Era

Literacy tests were designed to:

• Test a voter's ability to read

• Inform voters of the issues

• Prevent most voters from passing

• Ensure that voters were well-educated

Voter suppression in the South led to:

• All-white state governments

• Racist policies like segregation

• Second-class citizenship for Black Americans

• All of the above

What do Fannie Lou Hamer and John Lewis have in common?

• They were denied the right to vote because of their race

• hey were violently attacked for trying to vote

• They protested racist voter suppression

• All of the above

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 led to a population of voters that was more:

• Diverse

• Conservative

• Unified

• Middle Class

Which of the following is an example of voter suppression?

• Making Election Day a national holiday

• Allowing people to vote early

• Requiring a voter’s signature

• Reducing the number of polling locations

What happens when voter turnout increases?

• The government increases in size

• More citizens’ voices are heard

• More officials are voted out

• All of the above