Voting Rights
Voting Infringements
Colonial Life
French and Indian War
Elections!
100
A change to the Constitution, the supreme law of the land
What is an Amendment?
100
Requiring people to cite prayers in order to vote
What is a religious test?
100
Prior to 1763 the Colonists were left alone to rule themselves
What is Salutary Neglect?
100
This army lost the French and Indian War and had to go home
Who are the French?
100
The State Congressional District that we live in
What is District 9?
200
In 1920 the 19th Amendment allowed for this
What is women's suffrage (the right to vote)?
200
Literacy tests were used to keep this group from voting after property requirements were dropped as a prerequisite for voting
Who are Irish-Catholic immigrants?
200
It gave rise to religious fervor and the more democratic idea that everyone was equal at the foot of the cross
What is the First Great Awakening?
200
Since the war cost so much, the British Parliament did this to recoup spendings
What is taxing the colonies?
200
The power to make and apply laws in a specific place
What is jurisdiction?
300
In the nation's first elections only these people were permitted to vote
Who are white, male, land-owning Christians?
300
Having to pay in order to be able to cast your ballot
What is a poll tax?
300
The land was theirs long before the British came and colonized
Who are the Native Americans?
300
The primary British gains from the French and Indian War
What are huge land gains in North America?
300
The head of the Federal Government
Who is President Barack Obama?
400
After the North's victory in the Civil War this group of people were granted the right to vote
Who were male ex-slaves? (African-American males in general)
400
In 1965 this set of laws is passed to protect the rights of minority voters
What is The Voting Rights Act?
400
A form of peaceful protest against English tyranny prior to the Revolutionary War was to not buy British goods
What is to boycott?
400
This line was drawn by King George III as the western boundary of the Colonies, which really bothered the colonists
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
400
The Federal Congressional District where we live
What is District 9?
500
18-year-olds were going off to fight in this war, killing and dying, but could not vote for those conscripting them
What is the Vietnam War?
500
A judge recently halted the enforcement of a law in Pennsylvania that would require this
What are voter ID requirements?
500
The Townshend, Tea, and Stamp Acts were decried as examples of this kind of tyranny
What is Taxation without Representation?
500
He was a captain in the British Army, but will go on to be the general in charge of the Continental Army
Who was George Washington?
500
The smallest jurisdiction boundary that we live in
What is the City of Berkeley?
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