Voting Rights

Forcing people to pay for the right to vote was called a _________?

• Literacy Test
• Poll Tax

Which war led to the passage of the 26th Amendment?

• World War II
• The Vietnam War

Our earliest ideas about voting came from which country?

• France
• England

When the Civil War was over, the United states ratified the 15th amendment which promised that a person's right to vote could not _____

• be denied based on whether you were male or female

• be denied even if a person was not a citizen

• be denied based on race, color or previous condition as a slave

Suffrage is a fancy word meaning _____

• the right to vote

• the process to amend the Constitution

• suffering

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

• Women

• All freed slaves

• 18 year olds

• All Americans

To what age did the Twenty-sixth Amendment lower the voting age?

• 16

• 18

• 21

• 25

Which amendment or law made ALL voter discrimination illegal?

• 13^th Amendment

• 15^th Amendment

• The Voting Rights Act of 1965

• 24^th Amendment

Which best describes who could vote when the country started?

• white, property owning over 18

• white, property owning men over 18

• property owning men over 21

• white property owning men over 21

In your opinion, who has been affected the most by voting rights legistlation? Why?