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What is the word for how a group chooses someone or something?
Vote
How old do you have to be to vote in the United States?
18
What percent of people vote when it isn't a presidential election? 26%, 53% or 71%
About 26%
Name a group of people in the united states that have been denied the right to vote in the past.
Black people, Women, Native Americans, poor people, people who didn't own land
What day of the week are elections usually held in the United States?
Tuesday
What do we call a person who wants to be elected to be a leader?
Candidate
What is suffrage?
The right to vote.
What percentage of people vote in a presidential election? 40%, 60% or 80%
About 60%.
In which state did women first actually vote in?
New Jersey (Women weren't not allowed to vote thanks to the language in their state constitution. Then in 1807, New Jersey lawmakers (men) passed a law and women lost the right to vote. They wouldn't be allowed to vote for over 100 more years.)
What month are United States elections usually held?
November
What do we call a person who was born in a certain place or has the right to live there?
Citizen
Which amendment to the constitution gave women the right to vote? 11th, 17th or 19th
19th amendment?
Voting has been around for at least how many years? 250, 500, or 1000.
1000
Which state was the first to grant women the right to vote?
Wyoming
Name a way people cast their votes before we used paper ballots.
Hands or voice or moving around the room
What is it called when we vote to choose a person as a leader?
Elect
21
How much money was spent on the 2020 election?
140 million, 14 billion, or 140 billion
About 14 BILLION dollars.
How many constitutional amendments have been made that affect voting rights? 4, 8, or 11
4
How many US presidents never voted before becoming president?
One- Zachary Taylor
Polls
An act (law) was passed that protects the right to vote. Did that happen in the year 1935, 1965, or 1995?
The Voting Rights Act of 1965.
How many things are there to vote for on the ballot this year?
Between 1-5, between 6-10, more than 10
More than 10.
Name the yeasted fruit cake that people ate on election day in the time of the American Revolution?
Election Day Cake
Why do we vote on the first Tuesday in November?
In 1792 most people were farmers. November was late enough that the farm was less busy, still gave time for the electoral college to meet to vote on president and vice president, and a Tuesday allowed them to go to church on Sunday, travel on Monday, vote on Tuesday and head home on Wednesday. (So congress passed a law saying it would happen then. They could change that law.)