13.7 Interactive Knowledge Check: Voting Rights in America

1. The original Constitution largely left elections and voting to _______

2. What area of voting is covered by Article II, Section I, of the Constitution?

3. The 15th Amendment passed in 1870 banned voting discrimination on the basis of ________

4. The 19th Amendment passed in 1920 banned voting discrimination on the basis of ________

5. The 26th Amendment passed in 1971 banned voting discrimination on the basis of ________

6. Although voting requirements varied state to state, what were some requirements for voting that existed in the early years of America?

7. Unmarried women who owned land could vote in state and local elections in which state between 1776 and 1807?

8. During the Age of Jackson in the 1820s and 1830s, some voting requirements were eliminated and it became much easier to vote if you were ____________

9. A gathering of women at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 produced this famous document, which cited a list of grievances and drew attention to inequalities and oppressive laws in America

10. In addition to a demand for the right to vote, what else was a demand that women made during the Seneca Falls Convention?

11. The language of the women’s suffrage amendment, which stated “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex,” was introduced in Congress as early as 1878 and named for this leader of the women’s suffrage movement.

12. What was true of the transformative, but all too brief, period of Reconstruction?

13. This man proposed a powerful draft of the 15th Amendment, which would have protected the right to vote on the grounds of race, color, nativity, property, education, and creed.

14. Which of the following was a way that African American voting rights were denied in the years following Reconstruction?

15. What is the name of the system of laws passed to suppress the African American vote after the ratification of the 15th Amendment?

16. Which demographic group was granted citizenship in 1924?

17. The most transformative legislative advance for the protection of voting rights was __________

18. The requirement that certain states with poor voting rights histories had to obtain permission from the national government before they changed their voting laws was known as ________

19. Years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court struck down the formula used to apply the preclearance requirement of the Voting Rights Act in which case?

20. In the Supreme Court, and in the country, debate about the scope of constitutional protections for the right to vote ___________