Voting Rights Milestones
This is the year that women got the right to vote.
What is 1920?
The 15th Amendment states:
What is: You cannot deny vote based on race?
This is what the Voter ID law established.
What is Requires certain ID to vote, may suppress turnout.
The leader of the civil rights movement that pushed for voting rights.
Who is MLK Jr?
This is the minimum age to vote in federal elections.
What is 18?
This war helped spark the push to lower the voting age to 18?
What is the Vietnam War?
The 19th Amendment granted this.
What is women's right to vote?
This is what literacy test were used for.
What is to prevent Black Americans from voting.
This was the first Black woman elected to Congress, a voting rights advocate.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This is when you're allowed to vote before Election Day.
What is Early Voting?
This is the year the Voting Rights Act passed.
What is 1965?
The 24th Amendment banned this.
What is Poll Taxes?
Gerrymandering does this.
What is manipulating district boundaries to benefit a party?
This was the U.S. President when the Voting Rights Act was signed?
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This is the process of requesting a ballot and dropping it at the post office.
What is voting by mail/mail-in ballots?
This march in 1965 highlighted the need for voting rights and led to the VRA’s passage.
What is Selma to Montgomery March / Bloody Sunday?
What is lowered the voting age to 18.
This is the practice of Purging Voters.
What is removing names from registration lists?
This woman was a Civil rights leader and co-founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer?
This is known as One-Stop Voting.
What is the process of registering and voting on the same day?
Which group was granted citizenship—and thus voting rights—in 1924.
What is Native Americans?
The Supreme Court struck down this part of the Voting Right Act in 2013.
What is Preclearance?
This is a modern example of voter suppression.
What is reduced polling places in minority areas - other examples accepted.
This man was a Congressman and Selma marcher beaten on Bloody Sunday.
Who is John Lewis?
This is the name of the National Voter Registration Act.
What is the Motor Voter Law?