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WorksheetsUS Voting Rights
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 26mins
What is the foundation of any democracy?
The right to bear arms
The right to practice any religion they choose
The right to vote
The right to privacy
What were the initial voting requirements set by the states after the US Constitution first came into effect in 1789?
White men who owned property could vote
All residents of a US state could vote
All citizens of the United States could vote
All men aged 21 and older could vote
Which amendment granted citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States?
Nineteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Sixteenth Amendment
What was the purpose of the poll tax enacted in Georgia in 1877?
To fund public schools
To encourage voter turnout
To support local voter registration drives
To prevent poor Blacks and poor whites from voting
Which state was the first to grant women full voting rights in 1890?
California
Texas
New York
Wyoming
What did the Nineteenth Amendment achieve?
Granted women the right to vote
Abolished slavery
Prohibited poll taxes
Lowered the voting age to 18
What was the significance of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
It granted women the right to vote
It banned the use of literacy tests and other barriers preventing African Americans from voting
It lowered the voting age to 18
It allowed residents of Washington, DC to vote in presidential elections
Which amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18?
Twenty-fifth Amendment
Twenty-third Amendment
Twenty-sixth Amendment
Twenty-fourth Amendment
What is the usual voter turnout during presidential elections in the US?
Below 60%
Exactly 50%
Above 80%
Around 70%
When are voting rights generally denied?
If someone has not lived in a state for at least 100 days
If someone has been declared insane
Which is a qualification to vote in a federal election?
live in one of the 50 states
pay your taxes
own property
be a US citizen
speak and read English
Which group was granted voting rights by the Fifteenth Amendment?
18 Year Olds
African Americans
Immigrants
Women
Which of the following statements about voting behavior in the United States is correct?
College graduates are more likely to vote than are those who have at most a high school diploma.
Voters under the age of 25 are more likely to vote than are those in any other age group.
Registration requirements have no significant effect on voter turnout.
Since 1920, the proportion of women who have voted is approximately the same as the proportion of men who have voted.
During the twentieth century, the proportion of African Americans who voted was approximately the same as the proportion of White Americans who voted.
Which term refers to the right that enables voters to accept or reject measures proposed by legislation?
Initiative
Referendum
Recall
How old do you have to be to vote in Oklahoma?
How old do citizens have to be to vote for President of the United States?
18 and older
21 and older
35 and older
16 and older
When you do this, you deprive eligible voters from voting in an election through no fault of their own.
enfranchise
disown
disenfranchise
Which constitutional amendment ensures all citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous servitude?
13th
15th
18th
17th
The right to vote is a(n)...
civil liberty.
civil right.
due process right.
economic freedom.
What is a term that means "the right to vote"?
suffrage
amendment
civil liberty
consanguinity
Who actually votes to elect the president in a presidential election?
We the people
The Electoral College
The House of Representatives
The Senate
Which type of vote determines how each state's electoral votes will be cast to elect the president?
The popular vote
The civic vote
The civil vote
The party vote
What is a primary election?
An election for a political party to select a candidate to run in the general election
An election for the US Prime Minister
The first election held in a new decade
A private meeting of certain political party members to choose a candidate to run in the general election
When is a presidential election held?
On the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in a leap year
On the last Thursday of November in an even-numbered year
Whenever the Electoral College says it will be held every four years
On the second Wednesday in January in an even-numbered year
How did passage of the legislation shown in the image affect the political process in the US?
Which of these laws made it so one can register to vote when renewing his/her/their driver's license?
What was a direct consequence of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 on elections in the southern United States?
A decrease in voter turnout
An increase in the number of African American voters
The immediate end of racial segregation
The introduction of voter ID laws
What was the outcome of the Supreme Court's decision in the case of Shelby County v. Holder in 2013?
It upheld the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in its entirety
It introduced a new amendment to protect voting rights
It invalidated a key provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
It extended the Voting Rights Act of 1965 for another 25 years
How did the Supreme Court ruling in Shelby County v. Holder affect voting rights?
It expanded voting rights protections
It made it easier for states to change their voting laws without federal approval
It introduced automatic voter registration
It banned gerrymandering
Which president signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law?
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon
Dwight D. Eisenhower
In which year did American women gain the right to vote?
Which political party is symbolically represented by the donkey?
The Democratic Part
The Republican Party
The Libertarian Party
The Communist Party
Which political party is symbolically represented by the elephant?
The Democratic Party
The Republican Party
The Pachyderm Party
The Socialist Party
