Worksheets0 5.1 (Voting Rights and Models of Voting Behavior)
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 20mins
The (a) granted African American men the right to vote.
Name one structural barrier Southern states used to suppress African American voting after Reconstruction.
Which president’s advocacy for universal male suffrage led to a surge in voter turnout in the 1830s?
Andrew Jackson
Rutherford B. Hayes
Woodrow Wilson
Dwight Eisenhower
A 1900 Alabama law required voters to pass a reading test but exempted those whose grandfathers could vote.
Which practice does this describe?
Poll tax
Grandfather clause
White primary
Literacy test
The (a) amendment granted women the right to vote.
The (a) provision required states with histories of discrimination to seek federal approval before changing voting laws.
"Throwing out preclearance is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm."
This dissent criticized the Supreme Court’s invalidation of which Voting Rights Act provision?
Ban on poll taxes
Preclearance
Literacy test ban
Federal election examiners
What law banned literacy tests and enforced federal oversight of voting practices in discriminatory states?
The Supreme Court case (a) v. Holder (2013) invalidated the preclearance requirement of the Voting Rights Act.
The (a) Amendment allowed Washington, DC, residents to vote in presidential elections.
Which amendment lowered the voting age to 18?
Twenty-third
Twenty-fourth
Twenty-sixth
Fifteenth
Which amendment outlawed poll taxes in federal elections?
Fifteenth
Nineteenth
Twenty-fourth
Twenty-sixth
The (a) Amendment allowed direct election of senators by popular vote.
What triggered the ratification of the Twenty-sixth Amendment?
Civil Rights Movement
Vietnam War draft
Women’s suffrage protests
Expansion of DC voting rights
