Voting Rights

Which amendment gave women the right to vote? It's also called women's suffrage.

• 24th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

What amendment set the national voting age at 18?

• 26th Amendment

• 25th Amendment

• 23rd Amendment

• 19th Amendment

Which amendment gave all men the right to vote regardless of race or color or whether they had been slaves?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Under the 15th Amendment, what two things did all men have to do to vote?

• Pay taxes and complete a writing test

• Pay a poll tax and complete a literacy test

• Pay money and complete a test

• Pay poll taxes and complete an ABC test

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

• 16

• 18

• 21

• 25

How did the Twenty-fourth Amendment allow more Americans to vote?

• . It changed voting laws, which meant that non-U.S. citizens were able to vote.

• It outlawed poll taxes, which many states used to prevent poor Americans from voting.

• It prevented grandfather clauses, which many states used to prevent women from voting

• It required literacy tests, which meant that Americans became better educated about voting

According to the Fifteenth Amendment, on what basis could citizens no longer be denied the right to vote?

• on the basis of employment

• on the basis of gender

• on the basis of race or color

• on the basis of religion

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 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

Sienna stands in line at her polling place to vote in the election. She is happy that women were granted the right to vote so she can voice her opinion!

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 24th Amendment

• 26th Amendment