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100

What is the word for how a group chooses someone or something?

Vote

100

How old do you have to be to vote in the United States?

18

100

What percent of people vote when it isn't a presidential election? 26%, 53% or 71%

About 26%

100

Name a group of people in the united states that have been denied the right to vote in the past.

Black people, Women, Native Americans, poor people, people who didn't own land

100

What day of the week are elections usually held in the United States?

Tuesday

200

What do we call a person who wants to be elected to be a leader?

Candidate

200

What is suffrage?

The right to vote.

200

What percentage of people vote in a presidential election? 40%, 60% or 80%

About 60%.

200

In which state did women first actually vote in?

New Jersey (Women weren't not allowed to vote thanks to the language in their state constitution. Then in 1807, New Jersey lawmakers (men) passed a law and women lost the right to vote. They wouldn't be allowed to vote for over 100 more years.)

200

What month are United States elections usually held?

November

300

What do we call a person who was born in a certain place or has the right to live there?

Citizen

300

Which amendment to the constitution gave women the right to vote? 11th, 17th or 19th

19th amendment?

300

Voting has been around for at least how many years? 250, 500, or 1000.

1000

300

Which state was the first to grant women the right to vote?

Wyoming

300

Name a way people cast their votes before we used paper ballots.

Hands or voice or moving around the room

400

What is it called when we vote to choose a person as a leader?

Elect

400
How old did someone have to be to vote before the 26th amendment changed the voting age to 18?

21

400

How much money was spent on the 2020 election?

140 million, 14 billion, or 140 billion

About 14 BILLION dollars.

400

How many constitutional amendments have been made that affect voting rights? 4, 8, or 11

4

400

How many US presidents never voted before becoming president?

One- Zachary Taylor

500
What is a place where people go to vote?

Polls

500

An act (law) was passed that protects the right to vote.  Did that happen in the year 1935, 1965, or 1995?

The Voting Rights Act of 1965.

500

How many things are there to vote for on the ballot this year?

Between 1-5, between 6-10, more than 10

More than 10.

500

Name the yeasted fruit cake that people ate on election day in the time of the American Revolution?

Election Day Cake

500

Why do we vote on the first Tuesday in November?

In 1792 most people were farmers.  November was late enough that the farm was less busy, still gave time for the electoral college to meet to vote on president and vice president, and a Tuesday allowed them to go to church on Sunday, travel on Monday, vote on Tuesday and head home on Wednesday. (So congress passed a law saying it would happen then.  They could change that law.)