Chapter 4.2 Main Idea Review (Civics)

Amendment 24

Abolition of poll taxes

Amendment 15

Black Suffrage

Amendment 17

Direct election of senators

Suffrage refers to the right to vote for women only.

False

The Thirteenth Amendment not only outlawed slavery but it also gave African Americans the right to vote.

False

Amendment 23

Presidential Electors for the District of Columbia

Before the ratification of the Twenty-third Amendment, people living in Washington, D.C., could not vote in national elections.

True

Many people believe that the poll tax was meant to prevent poor people from voting.

True

Th Twenty-sixth Amendment increased the voting age from 18 to 21.

True

Today the Constitution has a total of 27 amendments.

True

Women such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton helped women gain the right to vote.

True

Amendment 26

Voting Age Set to 18 Years

Amendment 19

Women's right to vote

Amendment 13

abolished slavery

When the Constitution was first written, it

didn't mention voting rights.

Emancipation Proclamation

freed only some slaves.

Amendment 14

rights of citizens: 1)all persons born in the united states are granted citizenship, 2) no state can deny any person the equal protection of the laws, 3)no state can deny any person life, liberty, property without due process of law