Ordenar Letras 18-1 & 2 Expand Voter Rights & Influences on VotersVersión en línea Students will explain how citizens in the United States participate in public elections as voters and supporters of candidates for public office. por Lance Hiles 1 To increase voter turnout, some states allow early voting or ___ balloting. B T A E E N S 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. E E O N W T Y N T 3 To increase voter turnout, some reforms suggest shifting Election Day from Tuesday to ___ . A A Y T R S D U 4 1920: Women gained the right to vote with the ___ Amendment, but did not face the legal barriers that African Americans faced. E E H N T N E I N T 5 Citizens are more likely to vote if they are ___ , middle-aged, and hold high socioeconomic status T E D A E U D C 6 1965: ___ ___ Act resulted in 200 African American mayors in cities of all sizes, such as Richard Hatcher, Mayor of Gary, Indiana. T V H G O R G S I I T N 7 Voter turnout may be impacted by requiring ___ , which Republicans favor, and which Democrats oppose. P H O T C F I T O I N I E D T O A N I 8 1964: ___ Amendment outlawed the poll tax in national elections, and 1966 Harper v. Virginia Board of Election eliminated it in state elections. H W U R T F O T E T N Y 9 European nations, government ___ eligible citizens to vote; In the U.S., the burden of registering falls on the citizen. R R G E S S T I E 10 Southern leaders disenfranchised African American voters with the ___ Clause, which said: only voters whose grandfathers voted before 1867 were eligible to vote. H F G R A R D N E A T 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 R L 12 1870: the 15th Amendment was the first time the Constitution dictated rules to states about who was allowed to ___ . O E V T 13 Strong party voters are those who select their party’s candidates regardless of the specific issues; They vote ___ ___ticket. A Y P T R T R T I S G H A 14 1850s: state legislatures abolished voting restrictions based on property requirements & ___ affiliation. U R L E I I G S O 15 These four factors drive voters’ ___ ___ : voter’s personal background, loyalty to party, candidate qualifications, & issues. O N C I E H C C I L E T S E O 16 After creating the Constitution, Congress made no laws regulating ___ elections until after the Civil War. D E A E L F R 17 People have proposed limits to Congressional terms, but efforts to amend the Constitution have failed; though 36 states have limits on ___ terms. V G O O R R E N 18 Voting restrictions existed because educated white men believed voting was best left to wealthy, white, property-owning males, because they made ___ ___ . O H C S I I W E C R E S 19 1845: ___ ___ is Tuesday after the first Monday in November, & most states use this federal date as well. I Y E L O D E A C T 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. O Y N P T R W E P O R
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