American Government Chapter 6 Review game 1. What is a fee demanded by States as a condition of voting? Poll tax 2.

. Which amendment outlawed poll taxes? 24th Amendment 3. The Framers of the Constitution gave _____ the power to set suffrage qualifications. States 4. Conducting elections is a _____ power. Reserved 5. Those who said "old enough to fight, old enough to vote" supported the ratification of the __________ Amendment, which provides that no State can set the minimum age for voting at more than 18 years of age. 26th Amendment 6. What term means the potential voting population? Electorate 7. Passed after the Civil War, the __________ Amendment was intended to protect any citizen from being denied the right to vote because of race or color. 15th 8. Which amendment granted women the right to vote? 19th 9. What was the first place in the United States to give women the right to vote? Wyoming 10. Which amendment gives electoral votes to Washington, D.C.? 23rd 11. What was the first place in the United States to allow 18-year olds to vote? Georgia 12. Why were the southern states known as the Solid South in the decades after the Civil War? Because of their unyeilding support for the Democratic Party 13. People who feel their votes will not make a difference have no sense of what? Political efficacy

14. What are people who go to the polls but do not cast a vote in every race on the ballot? nonvoting voters 15. What are the congressional elections that are held in the even-numbered years between presidential elections? Off-year elections 16. What is depriving a person or group of voting rights? disenfranchisement 17. What is drawing a strangely-shaped voting district in order to limit the voting strength of African Americans an example of? Gerrymandering 18. What is the ability to read and write? Literacy 19. What is voter registration meant to prevent? Voter fraud 20. Why did some states use literacy tests and poll taxes? They were attempting to discourage African Americans from voting 21. What does franchise or suffrage mean? The right to vote 22.What permanently banned poll taxes and literacy requirements? The Voting Rights Act of 1965 23.What created the Civil Rights Commission, which looks into claims of voter discrimination? The Civil Rights Act of 1957 24. When the Constitution went into effect in 1789, who was voting limited to?(3 Characteristics) White, male, property owners 25. What are the three universal requirements for voting in the United States today? (One answer per student) citizenship residence age