Campaigns and Elections Quiz

The Constitutional Amendment that removed race as a voting qualification was the

• First.

• Fifteenth.

• Tenth.

• Twenty-sixth.

Jim Crow laws were created to

• limit African American voting.

• allow only African American men to vote.

• allow women to vote.

• stimulate African American participation in politics.

The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution allowed

• African American men to vote.

• women to vote.

• 18-year-olds to vote.

• only property owners to vote.

The _____ reduced the voting age from 21 to 18.

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Thirty-first Amendment

• Twenty-sixth Amendment

• Voting Rights Act of 1970

Voter registration laws were originally enacted to

• prevent African Americans from voting.

• prevent women from voting.

• prevent voter fraud.

• prevent both African Americans and women from voting.

The Twenty-second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in the aftermath of ____ unprecedented four elections to the presidency.

• Harry Truman's

• Franklin Roosevelt's

• Dwight Eisenhower's

• Ronald Reagan's

In a(n) ________ only voters registered as members of the party can participate in the selection process for that party.

• open primary

• general election

• closed primary

• closed election

The electoral college

• gives summer term credit.

• is composed of the same number of electors from each state.

• includes 538 electors.

• meets in Washington, D.C.

A preliminary election in which a party picks delegates to a party convention or its candidates for public office is called

• general election

• primary election

• caucus

• none of the above

__________ usually include discussion time before voting, thus giving them a more deliberative character than simple voting.

• closed primaries

• open primaries

• general elections

• caucus