Voting Rights Amendments Pre-Quiz

Which term is the best meaning of "suffrage"?

• the right for women to protest
• the right to vote in elections
• citizenship
• freedom

How did the 24th Amendment expand voting rights to Americans?

• States could charge poll taxes in elections
• Literacy tests were required so minorities learned to read
• It made poll taxes illegal
• It did nothing to expand voting rights

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
• 18 year olds
• All freed slaves
• All Americans

Which event led to the proposal and ratification of the 26th Amendment?

• Women's Suffrage Movement
• Vietnam War
• Civil Rights Movement
• World War II

Which amendment did the Voting Right Act of 1965 reinforce?

• The 15th Amendment protects minorities' right to vote
• The 1st Amendment's freedom of speech
• The 13th Amendment makes slavery illegal
• The 10th Amendment allowing states to make voting laws

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 based on race, color or previous condition as a slave

• be denied even if a person was not a citizen

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

The 19th amendment went through several votes in the House and Senate but was finally _____________ (legally approved) in the year 1920

• platform

• suffrage

• ratified

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

• 26th

• 14th

• 1st