Ordonner les Lettres 18-1 & 2 Expand Voter Rights & Influences on VotersVersion en ligne Students will explain how citizens in the United States participate in public elections as voters and supporters of candidates for public office. par Lance Hiles 1 To increase voter turnout, some states allow early voting or ___ balloting. B A T N E E S E 2 1960s: young Americans argued that if we are old enough to fight for their country, they were old enough to vote, and the 26th amendment changed the voting age from ___ to eighteen. Y O E T W N E T N 3 To increase voter turnout, some reforms suggest shifting Election Day from Tuesday to ___ . U A T R D S A Y 4 1920: Women gained the right to vote with the ___ Amendment, but did not face the legal barriers that African Americans faced. T E N T I H E E N N 5 Citizens are more likely to vote if they are ___ , middle-aged, and hold high socioeconomic status E C U A D D E T 6 1965: ___ ___ Act resulted in 200 African American mayors in cities of all sizes, such as Richard Hatcher, Mayor of Gary, Indiana. G I H T V R T O G I S N 7 Voter turnout may be impacted by requiring ___ , which Republicans favor, and which Democrats oppose. C H P I F N O A I O O I T N T E I D T 8 1964: ___ Amendment outlawed the poll tax in national elections, and 1966 Harper v. Virginia Board of Election eliminated it in state elections. W H Y F T O R T N T E U 9 European nations, government ___ eligible citizens to vote; In the U.S., the burden of registering falls on the citizen. S G R E T S I E R 10 Southern leaders disenfranchised African American voters with the ___ Clause, which said: only voters whose grandfathers voted before 1867 were eligible to vote. A T R A G D E F H N R 11 Presidential Election Voting was 69% in 1964 & 56% in 2012; Voter participation in U.S. is low compared to democracies around the ___ . R W D L O 12 1870: the 15th Amendment was the first time the Constitution dictated rules to states about who was allowed to ___ . T V E O 13 Strong party voters are those who select their party’s candidates regardless of the specific issues; They vote ___ ___ticket. A P T R R G T T S I A H Y 14 1850s: state legislatures abolished voting restrictions based on property requirements & ___ affiliation. G O L I R S U E I 15 These four factors drive voters’ ___ ___ : voter’s personal background, loyalty to party, candidate qualifications, & issues. E H T C N I C O L E C I O S E 16 After creating the Constitution, Congress made no laws regulating ___ elections until after the Civil War. R L E D E F A 17 People have proposed limits to Congressional terms, but efforts to amend the Constitution have failed; though 36 states have limits on ___ terms. V R N G E R O O 18 Voting restrictions existed because educated white men believed voting was best left to wealthy, white, property-owning males, because they made ___ ___ . R I W H S I C S E E C O 19 1845: ___ ___ is Tuesday after the first Monday in November, & most states use this federal date as well. D N C A O E E Y I T L 20 Before American Revolution, these groups could not vote: Women, African Americans, & White males who did not ___ ___ ; so 6% of the adult population was eligible to vote. W N O P E R P O T R Y
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