A history of voting rights

Identify which group was extended voting rights by the following amendments:

Fifteenth Amendment

• 18 Year Olds

• African Americans

• Immigrants

• Women

Identify which group was extended voting rights by the following amendments:

Twenty-sixth Amendment

• 18 Year Olds

• African Americans

• Immigrants

• Women

The _______ amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote in the year 1920

• 1st

• 19th

• 14th

Suffrage is a fancy word meaning _____

• the right to vote

• the process to amend the Constitution

• suffering

The basic rights of American citizenship are listed in the Constitution’s first 10 amendments called the ___________________________

• U.S. Confederation

• Bill of Monarchs

• Bill of Rights

The ______amendment was passed in the year 1971 and set the national voting age to be 18

• 26th

• 1st

• 14th

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

• All freed slaves

• 18 year olds

• All Americans

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

After the 15th Amendment was passed giving freed slaves the right to vote, some states used certain laws to try to prevent them from voting. These were called "Jim Crow" laws. One was a __________ (which is money a voter must pay to be able to vote)

• crime tax

• slave tax

• poll tax