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200 pt 300 pt 400 pt 500 pt 100 pt 200 pt 300 pt 400 pt 500 pt 100 pt 200pt 300 pt 400 pt 500 pt 100 pt 200 pt 300 pt 400 pt 500 pt 100 pt 200 pt 300 pt 400 pt 500 pt 100 pt The Right to Vote Voting Qualifications Suffrage & Civil Rights Who Votes How People Vote

This is one of the two terms that refer to the right to vote. 100 points

What is suffrage/franchise? 100 points

This is the minimum voting age in most states. 200 points

What is 18? 200 points

The 23 rd Amendment allowed voters here to cast a vote. 300 points

What is Washington, DC? 300 points

This amendment, ratified in 1870, extended suffrage to African American men. 400 points

What is the 15 th Amendment? 400 points

This amendment gave women the right to vote. 500 points

What is the 19 th Amendment? 500 points

Forty-nine states require all voters to do this before they can vote. 100 points

What is register? 100 points

This is an official list of qualified voters in a district or state. 200 points

What is a poll book? 200 points

Nearly every state prohibits these people from voting, as they are living in a state for only a short time. 300 points

What are transients? 300 points

Foreign-born residents of a state, referred to as this, are not allowed to vote. 400 points

What are aliens? 400 points

A voter no longer has to pass one of these in order to vote. 500 points

What is a literacy test? 500 points

This is another term for a court order. 100 points

What is an injunction? 100 points

This outlawed discrimination in public accommodations as well as discriminatory literacy or registration requirements to vote. 200 points

What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964? 200 points

This law finally made the 15 th Amendment an effective part of the Constitution. 300 points

What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965? 300 points

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 said that all new state election laws must be given this before they go into effect. 400 points

What is preclearance? 400 points

This is the practice of drawing electoral districts in ways that favor one political party. 500 points

What is gerrymandering? 500 points

These type of elections have the highest voter turnout. 100 points

What are presidential elections? 100 points

200 points These take place in even-numbered years when presidential candidates are not on the ballot.

What are off-year elections? 200 points

A large group of nonvoters include people who have a low degree of this. 300 points

What is political efficacy? 300 points

This term refers to the processes by which people learn about politics. 400 points

What is political socialization? 400 points

The more you have of this, the more likely you are to vote. 500 points

What is income/education? 500 points

Voters in lower income brackets are more likely to vote for this political party. 100 points

What is the Democrats? 100 points

Women are more likely to vote with this political party. 200 points

What is the Democrats? 200 points

This is the single best predictor of how a person will vote. 300 points

What is party identification? 300 points

More voters are identifying as this than ever before. 400 points

What is independent? 400 points

Examples of these are liberal, conservative, or moderate. 500 points

What are political ideologies? 500 points