Election Day Facts
Women's Voting Rights
The Fight for the African American Vote
MISC
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True or False:

Elections took place before the Constitution was ratified.

What is True
100

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were early women's rights activists. Did they live to exercise their 19th amendment right?

What is No, they died before they could see theirs efforts passed with the 19th amendment in 1920.
100

When did the civil right movement take place? 

What is 1950s and 1960s.

100
Who was the tallest president of the United States?
Who is Abraham Lincoln at 6'4.
200
True or False: 

George Washington bought votes with booze.

What is True. Washington spent his entire campaign budget 50 pounds on 160 gallons of liquor served to 391 voters, a custom in England.
200

In what year did Women gain the right to Vote?

What is 1920.
200
What Act gave African American people the right to vote?
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
200

What President died on 4th of July?

Who is John Adams.

Fun Fact: Thomas Jefferson also died on the same day, and year. July 4th, 1826


300
True or False:

Election Day always falls on the first Thursday of the month of November.

What is False

Election Day is held on the first Tuesday of the month of November.

300

What amendment gives Women the right to vote?

What is the 19th amendment.
300
Who signed the Voting Rights Act into place? 

Who is Lyndon B Johnson.


300
Which President was believed to have wooden teeth? 


Who is George Washington.
400
What was the sole reason Election Day is in November?
What is , it was when harvest season was over, so farmers were able to come and vote.
400

Where did the Women's suffrage movement begin?

What is Britain.
400
What were the Jim Crow Laws?

What is the Jim Crow laws were a collection of state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation. 

400
Which President would skinny dip in the Potomac River?


Who is  John Quincy Adams.

500
Who was America's Non-Elected President?
Who is Gerald Ford, using the 25th amendment president Nixon appointed Ford as Vice President after Agnu resigned from the position.
500

Who stood up for the Women's suffrage movement?

Who is Susan B. Anthony.
500

What tactics would election officials at the polls use to discriminate against black voters?

Election officials would tell black voters that they had gotten the date, time or polling place wrong, that they possessed insufficient literacy skills or that they had filled out an application incorrectly or were made to recite the entire Constitution or explain the most complex provisions of state laws.





500

Which president was the 1st to hold a televised news conference?

Who is Dwight Eisenhower.

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