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