VOCABULARY
The youngest you can be to be eligible to vote.
What is 18?
A requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote.
What is Poll Tax?
1920 legislation that granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
The party that advocated for the prohibition of slavery in the southwestern territories.
What is The Free Soil Party?
Individuals, usually outside of the government, who actively promote a political party, philosophy, or issue they care about.
What is Activist?
Citizens who are eligible to vote.
What is registered voters?
Requirement that voters be able to read; formerly used in the South to disenfranchise blacks.
What is Literacy Test?
Legislation that made it illegal to exclude potential voters on the basis of race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
The party who established to expose and dismantle the Freemason society across America.
What is the Anti-Masonic Party?
Those who both vote in elections and get involved in campaigns.
What is Campaigner?
The lack of interest among the citizens in participating in elections.
What is voter apathy?
Requirement that for an individual to automatically qualify to vote, his or her grandparent had to have voted (excluded former slaves and their descendants).
What is Grandfather Clause?
The act that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
A party often referred to as the "yippies" who viewed politics as theatre and staged elaborate protests.
What is the Youth International Party
Those who avoid all forms of political participation
What is inactives?
The citizens who are eligible to vote after reaching a minimum age requirement.
What is Voting Age Population?
A southern expedient to keep blacks from participating in primary elections.
What is White Primaries?
Legislation that gave eighteen-year-olds the right to vote in all elections.
What is the 26th Amendment?
The party that opposed the current national monetary system, founded on gold and unbacked paper currency.
What is the Silver Party?
Those who join organizations and participate in politics but not in partisan campaigns.
What is Communalists?
A document that is government printed, of uniform size, and cast in secret.
What is Australian Ballot?
The electoral strategy to increase political support among white voters in the South by appealing to racism against African Americans.
What is Southern Strategy
A bill that requires states to allow voter registration by mail, when applying for a driver's license, and at some state offices that serve the disabled or poor.
What is Motor-voter Bill?
The political party who worked to enfranchise women, especially in getting them the right to vote.
What is the Rhode Island Women’s Suffrage Party?
Those who avoid elections and civic organizations but will contact officials regarding specific problems.
What is Parochial Participants?