1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA)
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Citizenship
100
VRA saw the outlawing of this discriminatory tool, used to disenfranchise/hinder POC voters.
A) Literacy Tests
B) Property Estimations
C) Job Reports
D) Federal Preclearance
A) What are literacy tests?
100
The movement that this image was taken during.
a) Civil Rights Movement
b) Women's Suffrage Movement
c) Labor Movement
d) Environmental Movement
B) What is the Women's Suffrage Movement?
100
These two factors led most to the Chinese Exclusion Act.
A) Economic and racial fears
B) Diseases and famine
C) Poor fashion and hairstyles
D) Poor work ethic and politics
A) What are economic and racial fears?
200
Since the Voting Rights Act (1965) secured voting rights for all U.S. citizens, this covert voting practice shows up in at-large elections and racial gerrymandering.
A) Vote capturing
B) Vote dilution
C) Displaced Voting
D) Caucus System
B) What is vote dilution?
200
The law that this political cartoon is responding to.
A) Immigration Act of 1924
B) Voting Rights Act of 1965
C) Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
D) United States v. Wong Kim Ark of 1898
C) What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
200
This group was not granted citizenship until 1924.
A) African Americans
B) Women
C) Chinese Americans
D) Indigenous People
D) Who are Indigenous people?
300
This amendment led to the VRA but was initially curbed by United States v. Reese (1876), which declared that the amendment didn’t guarantee voting rights, it only barred race-based discrimination.
A) 9th amendment
B) 12th amendment
C) 14th amendment
D) 15th amendment
D) What is the 15th amendment?
300
The legislation this NYT article is discussing:
“The President's words were burned because they were not regarded by the militants [as] definite assurance of action…[for those] who for a hundred years have been given words without action.”
A) Federal Woman Suffragists amendment
B) Tariff reduction bill
C) Government Funding Legislation
A) What is the Federal Woman Suffragists amendment?
300
This amendment to the Constitution took the power to define citizenship away from individual states, and left it to the federal government.
A) 15th Amendment
B) 14th Amendment
B) 19th Amendment
C) 12th Amendment
B) What is the 14th Amendment?