1. Chapter 6 Review THE RIGHT TO VOTE

2. Define franchise

3. The right to vote

4. Synonym for franchise

5. suffrage

6.  How many amendments deal directly with the right to vote?

7. 5  15, 19, 23, 24, 26

8.  Who could vote at the time the Constitution was ratified?

9.  Adult, white, male property owners who owned at least around 50 acres

10.  Which amendment gave women the right to vote?

11. 19th

12.  Which amendment said a person cannot be denied the right to vote based upon race or color?

13. 15th

14.  Which amendment lowered the voting age to 18?

15. 26th

16.  The 24 th amendment got rid of the ______ tax as a condition for voting.

17. poll

18.  Which amendment allows residents of Washington, D.C. to vote in presidential elections?

19. 23rd

20.  Potential voting population

21. electorate

22.  T/F A state could set the voting age at 17 if they wanted to.

23. TRUE

24. Define disenfranchised

25.  To have the right to vote taken away---to not be allowed to vote

26. Name 2 groups of people who are generally kept from voting.

27.  Felons and the mentally incompetent

28.  Process of voter identification intended to prevent people from voting more than once

29. registration

30.  The only state that doesn’t require voter registration

31. North Dakota

32. The ability to read and write

33. Literacy

34.  A fee a person had to pay in order to vote---now illegal

35. Poll tax

36.  This allowed voting referees to go anywhere where voter discrimination existed.

37. Civil Rights Act of 1960

38.  Created the United States Civil Rights Commission

39. Civil Rights Act of 1957

40.  Landmark piece of legislation signed into law by Lyndon Johnson; resulted from the march from Selma to Montgomery; enforced the 15 th amendment

41. Voting Rights Act of 1965