CS #10- Disenfranchised Amendments- Post Test

Select all the ways the Fifteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-fourth, and Twenty-sixth Amendments accomplished extending voting rights to groups that were formerly disenfranchised.

• granted citizenship to former slaves
• eliminated the payment of a poll tax to vote
• granted 18-year olds the right to vote
• gave women the right to vote
• allowed citizens to vote directly for U.S. Senators

Identify the groups that gained the right to vote as a result of these amendments.

• The poor
• Women
• African Americans
• 18-year-olds
• 21-year-olds

The four amendments mentioned in this content statement are similar in that each

• expanded the rights of the accused
• put limits on Presidential powers
• shifted more power to state governments
• extended the vote to disenfranchised groups

When I was brought before your honor for trial, I hoped for a broad and liberal interpretation of the Constitution and its recent amendments, that should declare all United States citizens under its protecting [guidance] that should declare equality of rights the national guarantee to all persons born or naturalized in the United States. But failing to get this justice- -failing, even, to get a trial by a jury not of my peers—I ask not leniency at your hands-but rather the full [sever-ityl of the law. The basic problem identified in this speech by Susan Anthony was addressed in 1920 by a constitutional amendment

• granting suffrage to women
• Presidential executive order allowing women to serve in the military
• Supreme Court decision granting women additional privacy rights
• law allowing women to petition the government

One way in which the Fifteenth and Nineteenth Amendments are similar is that they both

• extended free speech protections to students
• increased the number of eligible voters in elections
• helped overcome discrimination against African Americans
• reduced citizen participation in government

After the Civil War, the purpose of adding the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution was to

• grant civil and political rights to women
• allow African Americans to become full citizens
• guarantee African Americans the right to vote
• extend voting rights to 18-year olds

One way in which the Women's Suffrage Movement and the Civil Rights Movement are similar is that both

• relied mostly on violence to draw attention to their goals
• opposed Supreme Court decisions expanding the rights of the accused
• refused to support church and religious leaders
• focused on securing the right to vote for disenfranchised groups

After ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, literacy tests and grandfather clauses were used in the South primarily to

• increase the number of women voters
• limit the number of African-American voters
• help formerly enslaved persons to meet property requirements
• encourage African-American voters to attend college

The 24th Amendment guarantees people the right to vote regardless of whether or not they have paid a poll tax. Which group does the 24th Amendment aim to protect?

• soldiers
• women
• poor citizens
• European Americans

The 15th Amendment expanded African Americans' ability to participate in the political process. How did the 24th Amendment expand upon the 15th Amendment?

• by granting African-American women the right to vote
• by ensuring the election of an African American to each state's legislature
• by requiring states to create congressional districts specifically for African Americans
• by removing an economic barrier that prevented many African Americans from voting