3.13 Extending Voting Rights Answers

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Which scenario most likely would have taken place at a polling center in the South in response to the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment?

poll workers requiring voters to show a pay stub proving employment

poll workers asking voters to prove ownership of their homes

poll workers having voters read aloud to prove they are literate

poll workers creating separate lines for voters based on race

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The Voting Rights Act ended

poll taxes.

literacy tests.

voter segregation.

gender discrimination.

Which statement is true regarding the Twenty-sixth Amendment?

Individual states could determine whether to give young people the right to vote.

Any military veteran who had served in combat was given the right to vote.

The government mandated that all youth over 18 were granted the right to vote.

The minimum voting age for females remained at 21.

When was the Fifteenth Amendment ratified?

after the Civil War

after World War I

during the civil rights movement

during segregation

Which piece of legislation increased the number of eligible voters by decreasing the required voting age to 18?

Fifteenth Amendment

Twenty-sixth Amendment

Nineteenth Amendment

Voting Rights Act

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