UNIT 5: POLITICAL PARTICIPATION

What did the Fourteenth Amendment grant?

• Right to vote for women

• Citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S.

• Right to vote for African Americans

• Lowered the voting age to 18

The Fifteenth Amendment granted ________ the right to vote.

• African American men

• Women

• Native American men

• Asian American men

What change did the Seventeenth Amendment make?

• Granted women the right to vote

• Changed the practice for electing Senators to a direct vote by the people

• Eliminated poll taxes

• Provided that the District of Columbia shall appoint electors

The Nineteenth Amendment granted ________ the right to vote.

• women

• men

• children

• aliens

What does the Twenty-Third Amendment provide?

• Lowered the voting age to 18

• Granted citizenship to all persons born in the U.S.

• Provides that the District of Columbia shall appoint electors

• Eliminated poll taxes

The Twenty-Fourth Amendment eliminated ________, a structural barrier to voting.

• poll taxes

• literacy tests

• property requirements

• age restrictions

What did the Twenty-Sixth Amendment do?

• Granted African American men the right to vote

• Lowered the voting age to 18

• Changed the practice for electing Senators

• Granted women the right to vote

Rational choice theory refers to individuals who base their decisions on what?

• Past performance

• Predictions of future performance

• Perceived best interest

• Party loyalty

Retrospective voting refers to individuals who decide based on what?

• Predictions of future performance

• Past performance

• Party loyalty

• Candidate characteristics

Prospective voting refers to individuals who vote based on ________.

• predictions of how a party or candidate will perform in the future

• past performance of a party or candidate

• the popularity of a party or candidate

• the opinions of family and friends