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