SS.7.CG.3.6

The graph shows the percentage of the voting-age population who voted in presidential elections from 1964 to 2008. The lines represent white voters and black voters in the North and in the South. Use the graph to answer any questions that follow.

What was the primary reason for the large gap between black voter participation rates in the North and black voter participation rates in the South?

• Most northern states held voter registration drives and other get-out-the-vote efforts aimed at assisting black voters.

• Black citizens in the North were more interested in politics than black citizens in the South.

• Many southern states implemented measures that were intended to make it difficult for black citizens to vote.

• Citizens did not need to register to vote in order to vote in the North.

The image shows an 1867 wood engraving entitled "The First Vote".

The action that is illustrated in the above wood engraving was made possible by the passage of which amendment?

• the Tenth Amendment

• the Thirteenth Amendment

• the Fifteenth Amendment

• the Twenty-sixth Amendment

Use the table to answer the question that follows.

Which of the following best completes the table?

• Prohibited laws that segregated based on race

• Guaranteed African American men the right to vote

• Accepted former Confederate states back into the Union

• Created congressional seats for African American representatives

Because of the Twenty-sixth Amendment, American citizens are eligible to vote at what age?

• 16

• 18

• 21

• 25

How did the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment affect the American political process?

• Efforts to disenfranchise minority voters became criminal offenses.

• Issues important to women became central to many political campaigns.

• African Americans were elected for the first time in many Southern states.

• Citizens were granted the power to directly elect members of the US Senate.