Voting Expansion
The first three presidents were Washington, Adams and Jefferson: who was able to vote in these elections across the U. S. ?
White
Property Owning
Males
The U. S. form of government that allows voters to select leaders
REPUBLIC
This state originally gave the right to women, but then it took it away
New Jersey
In which geographic region of the U. S. did women first have the vote, starting in the late 1800s?
The West
18
This Amendment to the Constitution extended the vote to black men for the first time
15th
The act of TAKING AWAY an individual's right right to vote.
DISENFRANCHISEMENT
Identify TWO forms of modern day voter suppression
Answers will vary:
Stricter ID Laws
Decreasing Voting Sights
Excessive Purging of voter rolls
Refusing to allow Water and Food for people in lines
Limiting or removing mail-in ballots
At this convention in 1848, the first calls for "votes for women" arose
This Amendment to the Constitution passed in the 1960s as part of the Civil Rights Movement.
It (finally) eliminated Poll Taxes.
24th
Name one prominent member of the Women's Suffrage movement.
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TWO words often used to describe the vote
Enfranchisement
Suffrage
This U. S. hate group arose after the Civil War and used what tactics to suppress the black vote?
Name the group / at least one tactic
Ku Klux Klan
Answers will Vary-
Intimidation (threats, hooded costumes)
Violence
Night Raids (attacks on black homes, properties)
Identify THREE tactics used by Woman Suffragists in their attempt to win support
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What was the symbol for women's suffrage?
Sunflower
Jail bars
The single LARGEST EXPANSION IN VOTING, in terms of # of people enfranchised, came as a result of this
AND
Occurred in what YEAR
What is the 19th Amendment / Woman Suffrage
1920
RATIFY / RATIFICATION
Laws that created race-based segregation in voting
were called
Jim Crow Laws
Suffrage for all Women of Color came as a result of this Landmark Law in 1965
Voting Rights Act
This state was the LAST to grant voting rights to Native Americans (1962)
Utah
TWO expansions in VOTING RIGHTS that came due to social shake ups from a WAR
Your answer should be "what is (name the war and name the voting rights expansion)"
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Revolutionary War - WM w Property
Civil War - black men
WW1 - women. WW2 - Civil Rights Mov't all POC
Vietnam - 18 year olds
The President is formally elected by this body.
Electoral College
Identify THREE voter suppression tactics from the post Civil War Era (Reconstruction)
and Explain how they worked
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Identify THREE
major grievances OR arguments for woman suffrage
named in the "Declaration of Sentiments"
Answers will vary
What amendment gave Washington DC the right to vote for president.
23 amendment