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