Chapter 15 Vocabulary

Question 1

This prevented discrimination in employers’ decision of hiring

Answer 1

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question 2

All the people in America with the right to vote

Answer 2

Electorate

Question 3

This gave African American males the right to vote and was the first constitution mandate affecting state voting requirements

Answer 3

Fifteenth Amendment

Question 4

The right to vote

Answer 4

Franhise

Question 5

This allowed states to recognize a registered voter as it would his grandfather. This was used to stop African Americans from voting and allow poor white people to vote.

Answer 5

Grandfather Clause

Question 6

A reading test required of someone before voting

Answer 6

Literacy Test

Question 7

This gave women the right to vote

Answer 7

Nineteenth Amendment

Question 8

When a person identifies with a party and openly refers themselves as a republican or democrat.

Answer 8

Party Identification

Question 9

Decision-making process voters use to choose a candidate based on the party they identify with.

Answer 9

Party line voting model

Question 10

A simple fee required to vote

Answer 10

Poll tax

Question 11

This is a provision under the Voting Rights Act that overall puts states under federal supervision if they attempt to create new discrimination laws. (EX: Gerrymandering, poll taxes, etc.)

Answer 11

Pre-clearance

Question 12

This is voting based on how a citizen thinks a candidate will act or perform in office.

Answer 12

Perspective voting model

Question 13

The voter looks at different issues (typically ones that are more important to themselves). What matters more to one rational-choice voter might mean less to another.

Answer 13

Rational-choice voting model

Question 14

Voters who use this model look backward to consider candidates’ track records.

Answer 14

Retrospective voting model

Question 15

This changed how senators were elected into office. Using the “Law of the Land” instead

Answer 15

Seventeenth Amendment

Question 16

These are qualifications for voting equally

Answer 16

Suffrage

Question 17

“Citizens shall not be denied the right to vote by the states or the UNited States…by the reason of failures to pay any poll tax or other boundaries”

Answer 17

Twenty-fourth Amendment

Question 18

Citizens “eighteen years of age or older” shall not be denied the right to vote by the states or the United States “on account of age”

Answer 18

Twenty-sixth Amendment