Key Terms
The right to vote is called..
What is suffrage? (Franchise)
Gave African American men, over the age of 21, the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
The longest period of residence that a State can require before permitting new residents to vote...
What is 30 days?
People with higher incomes tend to associate with the ______ party.
What is Republican
In 1965, the major political protest in the south that resulted in violence and created national outcry, leading to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
What is the march from Selma to Montgomery?
A tax payment required by some states before a person was allowed to vote.
What is a poll tax?
This Congressional Legislation enforced racial equality at polling places.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This once common voter qualification requirement - along the practice of charging a poll taxes - is now an illegal means of qualifying individuals to vote.
What are literacy tests?
Younger voters are more likely to be.
What are Democrats?
The act of using legal, but often unethical, means of preventing certain populations of people from voting.
What is voter suppression?
The practice of drawing the lines of electoral districts in order to limit the voting strength of a particular group or party.
What is gerrymandering?
Amendment that provided women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
What are the three (3) universal requirements for voting in the United States?
What are Citizenship, Residence, and age (18).
Income, occupation, education, gender, age, religion, ethnicity, family, and geography are all ___________ factors of voter behavior.
What are Sociological factors?
Name any one group of people in the United States who cannot (or mostly cannot) vote.
Who are illegal immigrants, permanent residents, people in prison or a mental institution, people who are dishonorably discharged from the military, people under 18.
When a person has no feeling of influence or effectiveness in politics, they have no sense of....
What is political efficacy?
This Amendment was, lowering the voting age to 18, was propelled by the Vietnam War.
What is the 26th Amendment?
The Congressional Act that allows all eligible citizens to vote when they apply for a drivers license, allows voter registration by mail, and makes voter registration forms available local offices of state employment.
What is the Motor Voter Act?
The single most significant and lasting predictor of how a person will vote.
What is party identification?
In what year were all Native Americans finally given citizenship?
What is 1924?
Voting for candidates of both parties at the same election.
What is split-ticket voting?
The two pieces of early Congressional Legislation in the civil rights movement; which were the first laws passed to enforce the 15th Amendment, and were not generally effective but provided the first stepping stones to voter equality.
What are the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960?
The [nearly] universal state requirement of pre-identifying voters. Intended to prevent fraudulent voting.
What is voter registration.
The two most important additional factors that can impact voter behavior closer to election time.
What are the candidates and issues?
Process by which people gain their political attitudes and opinions.
What is political socialization.