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