US Gov 8-10

Jim Crow laws were created to do which of the following?

• Allow women to vote

• Stimulate African American participation in politics

• Limit African American voting

• Allow only African American men to vote

__________ unprecedented four elections to the presidency prompted the Twenty-second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

• Ronald Reagan's

• Harry Truman's

• Franklin Roosevelt's

• Dwight Eisenhower's

Which of the following can be said about the Electoral College?

• It gives summer term credit.

• It is composed of the same number of electors from each state.

• It includes 538 electors.

• It meets in Washington, D.C.

The mainspring issue driving most electoral decisions seems to be _________ issues.

• foreign policy

• economic

• social

• civil rights

A president must meet all EXCEPT which of the following requirements?

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  Be a natural-born citizen

• Be a least 35 years of age

• Be a resident of the United States for fourteen years

• Be a resident of the District of Columbia

Which amendment provided women the right to vote?

• Twenty-sixth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Nineteenth Amendment

• Twenty-second Amendment

The voting age was reduced from twenty-one to eighteen by the __________.

• grandfather clause

• Twenty-sixth Amendment

• Thirty-first Amendment

• Emancipation Proclamation

__________ was the first state or territory to grant women the right to vote.

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  Virginia

• Wyoming

• Maryland

• New York

Experts who are hired by political candidates to give advice on the use of mass media are called media __________.

• journalists

• critics

• consultants

• pundits

Candidates for president try to get as much _____ as possible during the campaign.

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  free television time

• media interview time

• media debate coverage

• biographical feature stories