Brainpop: "Voting Rights"

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

• a. The President

• b. State officials

• c. The Supreme Court

• d. Congress

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

• a. White men with property

• b. U.S. citizens over 18

• c. Adults over 21

• d. White men over 21

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

• a. The 14th Amendment

• b. The Reconstruction Amendments

• c. The Voting Rights Act of 1965

• d. The Bill of Rights

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

• a. During the American Revolution

• b. Right before the Civil War

• c. Following the Civil War

• d. During the Jim Crow era

5. Literacy tests were designed to:

• a. Test a voter's ability to read

• b. Inform voters of the issues

• c. Prevent most voters from passing

• d. Ensure that voters were well-educated

6. Voter suppression in the South led to:

• a. All-white state governments

• b. Racist policies like segregation

• c. Second-class citizenship for Black Americans

• d. All of the above

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

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

• b. They were violently attacked for trying to vote

• c. They protested racist voter suppression

• d. All of the above

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

• a. Diverse

• b. Conservative

• c. Unified

• d. Middle class

9. Which of the following is an example of voter suppression?

• a. Making Election Day a national holiday

• b. Allowing people to vote early

• c. Requiring a voter’s signature

• d. Reducing the number of polling locations

10. What happens when voter turnout increases?

• a. The government increases in size

• b. More citizens’ voices are heard

• c. More officials are voted out

• d. All of the above