Voting Rights

Which Amendment eliminated the poll tax?

15th Amendment

24th Amendment

19th Amendment

2nd Amendment

How many limits were set on the States by the Constitution?

The 26th Amendment lowered the voting age to...

What led to the abolishment of the poll tax?

Voting Rights Act of 1965

15th amendment

Civil Rights Act of 1957

24th amendment

Which groups couldn't vote in the early years?

Poor white men

Women

American Indians

All of the above

The 15th Amendment was passed five years after the end of the Civil War

True

False

Louisiana and Alabama gave the same literacy tests

True

False

15th Amendment

Ended race-based voting requirements

Helped prevent voter discrimination

Prohibited the denial of the right to vote based on gender

Lowered the voting age to 18

Protected the right to vote for all citizens

Allowed citizens of the District of Columbia to vote

19th Amendment

Ended race-based voting requirements

Helped prevent voter discrimination

Prohibited the denial of the right to vote based on gender

Lowered the voting age to 18

Protected the right to vote for all citizens

Allowed citizens of the District of Columbia to vote

23rd Amendment

Ended race-based voting requirements

Helped prevent voter discrimination

Prohibited the denial of the right to vote based on gender

Lowered the voting age to 18

Protected the right to vote for all citizens

Allowed citizens of the District of Columbia to vote

Civil Rights Act of 1960

Ended race-based voting requirements

Helped prevent voter discrimination

Prohibited the denial of the right to vote based on gender

Lowered the voting age to 18

Protected the right to vote for all citizens

Allowed citizens of the District of Columbia to vote

26th Amendment

Ended race-based voting requirements

Helped prevent voter discrimination

Prohibited the denial of the right to vote based on gender

Lowered the voting age to 18

Protected the right to vote for all citizens

Allowed citizens of the District of Columbia to vote

Voting Rights Act

Ended race-based voting requirements

Helped prevent voter discrimination

Prohibited the denial of the right to vote based on gender

Lowered the voting age to 18

Protected the right to vote for all citizens

Allowed citizens of the District of Columbia to vote

What might've been different if the nation decided as a whole to drop the requirement that voters must own property instead of letting States individually drop that requirement?

Voting Rights

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