Voting Rights Act 1965

Which is a qualification to vote?

• graduate high school

• pay all of your taxes

• own a house

• be a U.S. citizen

When you do this, you deprive eligible voters from voting in an election through no fault of their own.

• enfranchise

• disown

• disenfranchise

Which had the greatest impact on a diversity of elected officials?

• Letter from a Birmingham Jail

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voter ID Laws

Which piece of legislation gave the DOJ the ability to monitor state voting?

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Motor Voter Law

• Election Integrity Act

Which amendments deal with voting?

• 15, 19, 23, 24, 26

• 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

• 11, 17, 20, 21, 27

• 1, 3, 9, 10, 11

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 ended poll taxes and literacy tests as a prerequisite to vote, resulting in -

• women gaining the right to vote

• veterans of the Korean War voting in larger numbers

• larger voter participation in the North than the South

• increased voting rates of minorities

Required desegregation of schools is to Brown v. Board of Education As ended poll taxes is to _______

• March on Washington

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

What was the primary purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

• To end racial discrimination in voting

• To establish a new voting system

• To promote women's suffrage

• To create voter ID laws

Which section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 required certain jurisdictions to obtain federal approval before changing voting laws?

• Section 2

• Section 5

• Section 8

• Section 10

Who was the U.S. President when the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was signed into law?

• John F. Kennedy

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Richard Nixon

• Gerald Ford