Voting Reforms and Women's Suffrage

Suffrage is -

• the right to vote

• the right to suffer

• the right to live

• the right to speak

What do reforms like initiatives, referendums, and recalls attempt to do?

• give the people more power over the government

• limit citizenship rights like voting

• provide low interest loans to farmers

• establish a system of checks and balances

17th Amendment

• Women's Suffrage

• Direct Election of Senators

• Federal Income Tax

• Prohibition

What do you call a change to the Constitution?

• amendment

• introduction

• preamble

• articles

____________ are changes for the better.

• Improvements

• Upgrades

• Reforms

During the suffrage movement, _________ fought for equality and the right to vote.

• men

• children

• women

The _______ amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote in the year 1920

• 16th

• 17th

• 19th

• 20th

Definition: election where voters choose their party's candidates

• Direct Primary

• Initiative

• Referendum

Definition: voters can propose laws by petition

• Direct Primary

• Initiative

• Referendum

Definition: allows voters to remove elected officals from office

• Direct Primary

• Initiative

• Recall