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