History of Voting Rights
Before the 26th amendment was implemented, this was the voting age in the United States.
What is 21?
The winner of the Presidential election must receive this many votes in the electoral college.
What is 270?
This article of the Constitution discusses the Constitutional amendment process.
What is Article V?
The first 10 amendments to the constitution is also known as this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This was the year that the 24th amendment was passed, which banned the use of pole tax.
What is 1964?
This is the total number of electors in the electoral college.
What is 538?
In 1920 this amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
This is the name for the first section of the Constitution.
What is the preamble?
This amendment was intended to protect any citizen from being denied the right to vote because of race or color.
What is the 15th amendment?
This person certifies the total number of electoral votes in Congress.
Who is the Vice President?
This amendment overturned the 18th amendments restrictions on the production and sale of alcohol.
What is the 21st amendment?
The U.S. Constitution has this many articles.
What is 7?
This president signed The Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
When the Constitution went into effect in 1789 only _______ were able to vote in the United States.
What is White, Male, Property Owners?
This amendments protects against excessive fines/bail and cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the 8th amendment?
The Constitutional Convention took place in order to write a document to replace this document.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The __________ created the Civil Rights Commission, which looks into claims of voter discrimination.
What is Civil Rights Act of 1957?
These are the 3 universal voting requirements in the United States today.
What are Citizenship, Residence and Age?
The 27th amendment (the most recent amendment) made it so that congressional salaries could not be changed until after the current election cycle was enacted in this year.
What is 1992?
This clause in the Constitution declares that Federal Law to be supreme law of the land. (ex. Federal Law trumps State Law)
What is the Supremacy Clause?