Chapter 7: Participation And Voting

was among the first

Compared with other nations in the world in granting suffrage to women, the United States

motor-voter provisions

Most new registration for voting are done through

discourage African American from voting

The purpose of the literacy tests that were used in the southern states after 1870 was to

preliminary election to choose party candidates

A direct primary

low education, low income, and being relatively young

Characteristics frequently associated with nonvoters are

hoped to channel student energy away from demonstrations and toward more conventional forms of participation

Congress and the states moved quickly to pass the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, which lowered the voting age to eighteen, because they

encourage the citizenry to engage in other kinds of political participation

Elections, as an institutional mechanism:

Well-educated people are more likely to vote than are their less-educated couterparts

How does education affect voter turnout?

80

If voter-turnout was computed on the basis of registered voters, about ________ percent of Americans vote

the states

The Framers of the Constitution left the issue of voter enfranchisement to

Fifteenth

The ___________ Amendment to the constitution prohibits states from denying the right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude,"

the United States

The country with the lowest voter turnout among eligible voters in national elections is

the belief that government is not responsive, so voting does little good

The decline in voter participation since the 1960 can be attributed in large part to

reduce the national voter turnout rate

The effect of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, which enfranchised eighteen-to-twenty-years-olds, was to

age

The last major expansion of suffrage in the United States involved the criterion of

to increase voter registration, although actual turnout has not increased

The short-term impact of "motor voter" laws has been

vote

The text defines suffrage and franchise as the right to

tends to increase

When elections are competitive, or close, voter turnout

United States

Which country was the first provide for the general election of representatives through mass suffrage?

Running for office

Which of the following activities requires the most initiative?

Writing letters to public officials

Which of the following is a conventional form of political participation?

The Boston Tea Party

Which of the following was the first known act of unconventional participation in America?

Wyoming

Women were first given the right to vote in