Amendments
This constitutional amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
The minimum age someone can vote.
What is 18?
Who are the two candidates of the 2020 election?
Who are Biden and Trump?
This was the first group granted the right to vote.
What are white men?
This gave African Americans the right to vote.
What is the 15th amendment?
There are 3 ways to register to vote in the 21st Century. List one.
What is registering by mail, in person, or online?
These influence elections by making campaign contributions to specific candidates.
What are PACs (political action committees)?
In 1924 American Indians gained the right to vote with this act.
What is the Indian Citizenship Act?
This amendment allowed 18 year olds to vote in the US.
What is the 26th amendment?
If a person changes their address, they would need to update this.
What is voter registration?
Which state traditionally hosts the first major electoral event in the presidential nomination process?
What is Iowa?
This war caused the the voting age to be changed from 21 to 18.
What is the Vietnam War?
Poll taxes were outlawed with this amendment.
What is the 24th amendment?
This act forbade states from imposing discriminatory restrictions on who could vote, as well as federal mechanisms to enforce this.
What is the voting rights act?
Since 1789, the United States has used this system to determine who wins the presidency.
What is the electoral college system?
This test had questions like "Draw a line around the number of letter of this sentence."
What is a literacy test?
Citizens of Washington D.C. could not vote for the US president until this amendment.
What is the 23rd Amendment?
These laws roll back decades of progress on voting rights by requiring voters to show government-issued photo identification at polls.
What are Voter ID laws?
There are three broad categories of federal election crimes. List at least 1.
What is/are campaign finance crimes, civil rights violations, and voter registration/voter fraud?
There were three big barriers to African American voting. List one.
What is/are literacy test, poll tax, or grandfather clause?