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