Voting Rights
This is the age you are first allowed to vote in local, state, and national elections
What is 18?
This year the 26th Amendment that allowed 18 year olds to vote passed.
What is 1971?
Before the fifty stars, the flag once had this shape and number of stars
What is a circle and 13?
This 1992 sports movie starred Emilio Estevez, was produced entirely in Minnesota, and followed a team of ragtag young Minneapolis athletes.
What is The Mighty Ducks
Minnesota has this many electoral college votes.
What is 10 electoral votes
These were officially banned by the Supreme Court in 1975, as they were a barrier to prevent black people from voting
What are literacy tests?
Tennessee Representative Harry T. Burn changed his vote from “nay” to “yay” in support of the 19th Amendment because of this reason.
What is His mom told him to?
Vice Presidents, before Jefferson, were chosen through this method
What is the runner up becomes VP?
Minnesota became a state in this year
What is 1858?
This year, this many U.S. House of Representative seats will be on the ballot.
What is 435?
This demographic group was granted citizenship in 1924 and thus were allowed to vote.
Who are Native Americans?
Margaret Newburgh is credited with being the first person to vote under the 19th Amendment, she is from this town.
What is South St. Paul, Minnesota // What is St. Paul, Minnesota
This president signed the Indian Removal Act
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Not The North Star State, we take this more traditional name for the state of Minnesota and an 1897 political cartoon
What is the Gopher State?
This amendment changed the election of senators to be direct (by the people) instead of appointed by state legislatures.
What is the 17th Amendment?
Unmarried women who owned land could vote in state and local elections in this state between 1776 and 1807?
What is New Jersey?
From 1949 to 2010, midterms caused the president's party to lose house seats, out of 19, this many midterms were lost
What is 17?
This state was the first to ratify women's right to vote into their constitution and it was key to becoming a member of the Union.
What is Wyoming
The first capital building was created in 1853, but was destroyed by what in 1881?
What is a fire?
This type of voting system, also referred to as instant run-off voting, is authorized in certain elections in 7 states while 19 states prohibit it.
What is Rank-choice voting?
This man proposed a powerful draft of the 15th Amendment, which would have protected the right to vote on the grounds of race, color, nativity, property, education, and creed.
Who is Henry Wilson
He was the penman for the original constitution.
Who is Jacob Shallus?
"We want an end to the robbery by the capitalists of our Black community" was one of the ten points in the platform of this political organization.
Who are the Black Panthers//What is the Black Panther Party
"L'Étoile du Nord," the state motto of Minnesota, was the state's first official named symbol when designated in 1861. Which has an English meaning.
What is Star of the North?
The U.S. doesn’t require citizens to vote but some countries have compulsory voting. This many countries also have these rules.
What is 22?