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