05.1 (Voting Rights and Models of Voting Behavior)

The framers decided that (a)   governments were best suited to define citizen qualifications for voting and for managing elections.

What did the Constitution originally specify regarding the election of the president?

• The president would be elected by a direct popular vote.

• State legislatures would appoint electors, who would then elect the president.

• Each state's governor would cast a single vote for president.

• The House of Representatives would select the president every four years.

President (a)   was an influential advocate for expanding suffrage to all white men and called for the end of the property requirement to vote.

Which amendment prevents the denial of the right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude"?

• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• 12th Amendment
• 19th Amendment
• 13th Amendment

The _______ Amendment, ratified in 1920, states that the right to vote shall not be denied "on account of sex."

• 15th
• 26th
• 21st
• 19th
• 24th

The Twenty-fourth Amendment, ratified in 1964, outlawed the use of a (a)   in federal elections.

After the Reconstruction era, which of the following was a structural barrier used by southern states to deny suffrage to African Americans by allowing illiterate and poor whites to vote if their grandfathers had been allowed to vote?

• White primary

• Literacy test

• Poll tax

• Grandfather clause

The (a)   was a method used by southern states where state Democratic Party organizations defined their membership as all-white, effectively preventing African Americans from participating in their primary elections.

Which amendment, ratified in 1913, changed the method of electing U.S. Senators from selection by state legislatures to direct popular elections?

• 16th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 19th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• 17th Amendment

Considered the most effective bill to bring African Americans into the political process, the _______ of 1965 outlawed literacy tests and placed states with low voter turnout under federal supervision.

• Civil Rights Act
• Voting Access Law
• Electoral Reform Act
• Voting Rights Act