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