Expanding Voting Rights
Before the American Revolution who could vote in the colonies?
White property owning males
Elections held between presidential elections are known as what?
What are midterm elections
Who is responsible for the overall strategy and planning of a campaign?
There are several criteria that you must meet to vote. Name two of them?
What are: Age, Citizenship, Residency, Registration
Making a choice among alternatives in an election?
What is voting
What amendment provided the right to vote no matter your race or previous condition of sevitude?
What is the 15th amendment
When the legislature refers a measure to voters for their approval?
What is a legislative referendum
States where there is a tight race in an election are known as?
What are swing states
Where you go to vote?
What is a polling place
to use methods to prevent someone from voting is known as?
What is disenfranchisement
What did the voting rights act of 1965 allow the government to do?
Register voters and send poll watchers
When you vote for only one party on a ballot?
What is straight ticket voting
What propaganda method is Ad Hominem?
After your polling place closes where do the ballots go to?
What is the canvassing board
Using ideas and rumors to influence opinion?
What is propaganda
Which group gained voting rights with the 19th amendment in 1920?
Who are women
What is one of the reasons why the U.S. has lower voter turnout?
What is complicated registration processes
Direct contributions to a candidate's campaign?
Name one way you can be involved in an election?
Poll worker, Poll watcher
Money given to an organization to support a political campaign, but not given directly to the candidate?
What is soft money
Name one of the three ways that southern states tried to disenfranchise black voters?
What are, Poll taxes, Grandfather Clauses, and Literacy tests
Name one of the things mentioned in your book that could lead to greater voter turnout?
What are - shifting election day, leave polls open more days and or longer hours, national registration system, early voting
What groups in an election are allowed to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money?
What are SuperPacs
in 1964 activists went south to register african americans to vote in what was know as?
What is the Freedom Summer
Allows you to vote without going to the polls?
What is an absentee ballot