Lesson 7.01 Expansion of Suffrage

After completing the Learn section of the lesson, assess your understanding of the concepts by playing this game.

1. The term suffrage means the right to _____________.    
   1. due process
   2. citizenship
   3. suffer for a cause
   4.  vote

   Answer: d.  vote

2. The first big extension of suffrage in United States history occurred when ___________ was/were eliminated as a qualification for voting.  This occurred by 1828 creating universal, white manhood suffrage
   1. slave ownership
   2. literacy tests
   3. property ownership
   4. poll taxes

   Answer: c. property ownership

3. With the passage of the ______________ Amendment, following the Civil War, African-American males were given the right to vote.   
   1. 14th Amendment
   2. 15th Amendment
   3. 19th Amendment
   4. 26th Amendment

   Answer: b. 15th Amendment

4. Women suffragists worked for decades to obtain the right to vote.  Finally, with the passage of the ____________ Amendment women were granted the right to vote.
   1. 14th Amendment
   2. 15th Amendment
   3. 19th Amendment
   4. 26th Amendment

   Answer: c. 19th Amendment

5. The civil rights of newly freed slaves were repressed by most Southern States following the Civil War through the passage of various State laws known as _____________. These were repealed when Republicans took control of Reconstruction.
   1. Jim Crow Laws
   2. Black Codes
   3. Segregation Laws
   4. Vagrancy Codes

   Answer: b. Black Codes

6. The ___________freed all slaves by outlawing slavery or involuntary servitude.
   1. 13th Amendment
   2. 14th Amendment
   3. 15th Amendment
   4. 19th Amendment

   Answer: a. 13th Amendment

7. The ___________extended citizenship to blacks and prohibited states from denying the rights and privileges of citizenship to any person born or naturalized in the United States.

   1. 13th Amendment
   2. 14th Amendment
   3. 15th Amendment
   4. 19th Amendment

   Answer: b. 14th Amendment

8. In 1971, Congress passed the ____________ lowering the voting age to 18 years of age.

   1. 14th Amendment
   2. 15th Amendment
   3. 19th Amendment
   4. 26th Amendment

   Answer: d. 26th Amendment

9. As the attention of the nation turned to protests over the _________, concerns over the right to vote for 18-21 year olds moved to the forefront of the nation’s attention.
   1. Civil War
   2. World War I
   3. World War II
   4. Vietnam War

   Answer: d. Vietnam War

10. For over a decade during the 1870s, ___________were generally allowed to vote due to the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment. 
    1. White women
    2. 18-year-old white men
    3. African-American men
    4. African-American women

    Answer: c. African-American men

11. When property ownership was eliminated as a requirement for voting in the United States:
    1. women at long last gained the right to vote.
    2. universal, white manhood suffrage prevailed.
    3. the voting age was also lowered to eighteen years of age.
    4. it was the result of the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

    Answer: b. universal, white manhood suffrage prevailed.

12. When property ownership was eliminated as a requirement for voting in the United States:
    1. all adult males were allowed to vote.
    2. it was the result of the passage of the 24th Amendment.
    3. it was the result of the Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896.
    4. more American citizens were allowed to vote than citizens in any other country.

    Answer: d. more American citizens were allowed to vote than citizens in any other country.