Voting and Elections Quiz

You can legally vote at the age of…

• 15

• 16

• 17

• 18

Match the following definitions to the word

• A place where people go to vote.

• Responsibility

• Freedoms that are protected by law.

• Polling Center

• Sharing your opinion on group decisions

• Vote

• To be accountable for something.

• Election

• When a group of people vote for things.

• Right

What is a candidate?

• A person who runs a campaign.

• A person who votes.

• A person who wants to be chosen as a leader.

• A person who drives a truck.

What is a platform?

• The things a candidate plans to do.

• A stepping stool.

• Things the candidate won’t do.

• A reason not to vote.

True or False: Citizens have a responsibility to vote.

• True

• False

Which things are decided with an election

• President

• Mayor

• Teachers

• Sheriffs

• Lawyers

Which are qualities of a good leader?

• Honest

• Dumb

• Responsible

• Kind

• Mean

Place the groups in the order that they got the right to vote

• White men over age 21

• EVERYBODY!

• Native Americans

• White women

• Black men

What are some jobs of the president?

• Signing important papers.

• Traveling to different places.

• Sleeping all day

• Making friends with other countries.

• Firing other people.

True or False: Everyone has always had the right to vote in the United States.

• True

• False