Expanding the Right to Vote U5C5L20 *ML

T or F: The Constitution gave each state the power to decide who could vote.

• True

• False

T or F: Limiting the right to vote to people who owned property was based on the belief that they would be more likely to promote the common good.

• True

• False

When did the last state eliminate property requirements for voting?

• 1820

• 1840

• 1851

• 1880

Approximately what percentage of African Americans in Southern states voted by 1910?

• 10 Percent

• 20 Percent

• 40 Percent

• 60 Percent

Which of the following was NOT used as a barrier to voting following the Fifteenth Amendment?

• Poll Tax

• Grandfather clause

• Literacy Test

• Property

By 1918, about ___________ of states had given women the right to vote?

• 25 Percent

• 50 Percent

• 75 Percent

• 100 Percent

Which Amendment to the Constitution prohibits states from denying women the right to vote?

• Fourteenth Amendment (1868)

• Fifteenth Amendment (1870)

• Nineteenth Amendment (1920)

• Twenty-sixth Amendment (1971)

Which branch of government played the most important role in granting the right of Native Americans to vote?

• Congress

• Executive Branch

• Judicial Branch

• State legislatures

__________ is giving the right to vote to a person or category of persons

• Enfranchisement

• Enslave

• Disenfranchisement

• Permission

In the context of American politics, __________ means the right to vote.

• Law

• Franchise

• Amendment

• Disenfranchisement