05.1 (Voting Rights and Models of Voting Behavior)

Fill in the Blank: According to the text, the framers decided that _______ governments were best suited to define citizen qualifications for voting and for managing elections.

Multiple Choice: 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.

Fill in the Blank: President _______ was an influential advocate for expanding suffrage to all white men and called for the end of the property requirement to vote.

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

• The Thirteenth Amendment

• The Fourteenth Amendment

• The Fifteenth Amendment

• The Nineteenth Amendment

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

Fill in the Blank: The Twenty-fourth Amendment, ratified in 1964, outlawed the use of a _______ in federal elections.

Multiple Choice: 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

Fill in the Blank: The _______ 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.

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

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Seventeenth Amendment

• Nineteenth Amendment

• Twenty-third Amendment

Fill in the Blank: 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.