Voting Qualifications
This is the minimum age at which someone can vote.
18 years old?
The year when voting was passed.
1788?
This Amendment lowered the minimum voting age from 21 to 18 years of age.
The 26th amendment?
This means the right to vote.
Suffrage?
The meaning of amendment.
A change in or addition to the constitution or a law?
This was the first voting restriction to be eliminated.
Religious tests?
This is the year that the last amendment of the US was written.
1992?
This constitutional amendment gave woman the right to vote.
The 19th amendment?
This was a payment made as a requirement to vote.
Poll tax?
meaning for the bill of rights.
The first 10 amendments?
The farmers of the Constitution allow the _________ to set suffrage qualifications.
The states?
The year when the 1st amendment was written.
1791?
Constitutional Amendment prohibits voting restrictions based on race or color.
The 15th Amendment?
The term used when a voter does not vote for issues because they are further down on the ballot.
Ballot fatigue?
The meaning of being an elector.
A citizen with the legal rights to vote?
Other than having legal residency and their appropriate age, this is a universal requirement one must have in order to vote.
Citizenship?
The year when the first African-American voted.
1870?
This Constitutional Amendment granted the citizens of Washington DC the right to vote in presidential elections.
The 23rd Amendment?
This is the term used to describe Congressional elections that take place between presidential elections.
Off-year election?
The meaning of basic rights.
Rights that when we are born with and should not be taken away-life,liberty and that pursuit of happiness.
This gave Native Americans citizenship and the right to vote.
The Indian citizenship Act?
The year,month and day was the declaration of independence sighed.
July 4,1776?
this amendment ended the poll tax as a requirement to vote.
The 24th Amendment?
This is the term used when someone has been denied the right to vote.
Disenfranchised?
The meaning of double jeopardy.
Being tried for the same crime after a jury has found you not guilty.