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Chapter 6 (p.147-172)

Voters & Voter Behavior

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Section 1 The Right to Vote

Facts

• The history of the United States has been marked by five stages concerning suffrage.

• The Constitution places five restrictions on the States’ power to set voting qualifications.

Vocab

Suffrage

Franchise

Electorate

The History of Voting Rights

• When the Constitution went into effect in 1789, the right to vote in the United States was restricted to ______________________________________________________.

• In 1789, a man who owned a jackass had the right to vote, but if his jackass died, he would lose that right. Ben Franklin’s response to this was, “in whom is the right of suffrage? In the man or the jackass?”

1. What are the two long-term trends that have marked voting rights in the United States since 1789?

A) ____________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________

B) ____________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________

Extending Suffrage: The Five Stages

1. Identify the five stages of the extension of suffrage.

A) ________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________

B) ________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________

C) ________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________

D) ________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________

E) ________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________

The Power to Set Voting Qualifications

1. What are the five restrictions the Constitution places on the states power to set voting qualifications?

A) ________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________

B) ________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________

C) ________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________

D) ________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________

E) ________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________

Questions

1. Why do you think the federal government took more and more control over setting voter qualifications? Why could the states not have accomplished the same ends?

Section 2 Voter qualifications

Facts

• All states have citizenship, residence, and age requirements for voting.

Vocab

Transient

Registration

Purge

Poll books

Literacy

Poll tax

Universal Requirements

• All states have _____________________________, _______________________, and _________________ requirements, as defined by the Constitution, when it comes to voting.

1. What is the citizenship requirement?

2. The residence requirement?

3. The age requirement?

Other Qualifications

• The states have imposed a number of other qualifications over time.

• These included literacy, tax payment, and registration.

• Only registration has survived as a requirement.

• The only state that does not require registration is _______________________.

1. List the two ways state and local governments regulate the voters in their given area.

A) _______________________________________________________

B) ________________________________________________________

2. What are the five provisions of the “Motor Voter law?”

A) ________________________________________________________________

B) ________________________________________________________________

C) ________________________________________________________________

D) ________________________________________________________________

E) ________________________________________________________________

3. What finally ended literacy as a voter requirement? ______________________________

4. What Supreme Court decision legalized the Voting Rights Act of 1970? _______________________________________

5. Which Amendment outlawed tax payments as requirements for voting in a federal election? ___________________

6. What was the result of the 1966 Supreme Court decision Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections?

7. What are three areas that a state can deny voting rights?

A) ____________________________________________________

B) ____________________________________________________

C) ____________________________________________________

Questions

1. What were grandfather clauses? How did they demonstrate a “double bias” against African Americans?

Section 3 Suffrage and Civil Rights

Facts

• 15th Amendment said voting rights could not be denied on the basis of race.

• The Southern states used a variety of methods to circumvent the 15th Amendment.

• Congress began to take action in the 1950s.

• African American suffrage was not fully secured until the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Vocab

Gerrymandering

Injunction

Preclearance

The 15th Amendment

• This Amendment was passed solely to ensure voting rights to African American men.

1. Identify five ways white supremacists sought to circumvent the 15th Amendment.

A) ________________________________________________________________

B) ________________________________________________________________

C) ________________________________________________________________

D) ________________________________________________________________

E) ________________________________________________________________

2. What was the result of the 1960 Supreme Court case Gomillion v. Lightfoot?

Early Civil Rights Legislation

Directions: In each section below, define how each Congressional legislation sought to create equal rights.

A) Civil Rights Act of 1960

B) Civil Rights Act of 1964

C) Voting Rights Act of 1965

1. Identify five areas in which a state might be forced into preclearance.

A) ________________________________________________________________

B) ________________________________________________________________

C) ________________________________________________________________

D) ________________________________________________________________

E) ________________________________________________________________

Questions

1. From the 1870s all the way up into the 1970s, what can we gather about American attitudes concerning civil rights? Why was there so much controversy?

Section 4 Voter Behavior

Facts

• Millions of qualified voters do not vote.

• Many people lack voter efficacy.

• There are many sociological factors that affect voting.

• There are many psychological factors that affect voting.

Questions

1. Identify five reasons why people do not vote.

A) ____________________________________________________

B) ____________________________________________________

C) ____________________________________________________

D) ____________________________________________________

E) ____________________________________________________

2. What are three sociological factors that cause people not to vote?

A) ____________________________________________________

B) ____________________________________________________

C) ____________________________________________________

3. What are three psychological factors that cause people not to vote?

A) ____________________________________________________

B) ____________________________________________________

C) ____________________________________________________

Directions: Read p.173 and answer the questions that follow.

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