Voting Rights Quiz - Test Review

What is the central idea of the passage?

• Voting rights were always available to everyone.

• African Americans and women had to fight for their right to vote.

• The Nineteenth Amendment was easy to pass.

• The Equal Rights Amendment was successful.

Which relevant detail best supports the central idea?

• The Fourteenth Amendment was added to the U.S. Constitution in 1868.

• Some states tried to stop African Americans from voting.

• Women held a big meeting in 1848 to talk about their rights.

• Black Americans and women had to fight long and hard to get this right.

Select two details that should be included in a summary of the passage:

• The Fifteenth Amendment says skin color doesn’t matter for voting.

• Women rode in parades to bring attention to their cause.

• The Twenty-Fourth Amendment got rid of poll taxes.

• The ERA was voted on but did not pass.

What central idea can be inferred from the section “Women and the Right to Vote”?

• Women were always allowed to vote.

• Women had to work hard to gain the right to vote.

• The Nineteenth Amendment was not important.

• President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act.

What does the word “picketed” mean as it is used in paragraph 8?

• stormed

• protested

• agreed

• supported

What is the overall text structure of the passage?

• Cause and effect

• Problem and solution

• Sequence of events

• Chronology

What new information does the timeline on page 20 contribute to the passage?

• Only white men who owned land could vote.

• The Fourteenth Amendment freed enslaved people.

• In 1960, many Americans thought the states were wrong.

• The Nineteenth Amendment gives woman the right to vote.