Extending Voting Rights — Quiz

Question 1

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

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Twenty-sixth Amendment

Question 2

State laws passed primarily in Southern states to restrict the voting rights of African Americans after the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment came to be known collectively as

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Jim Crow laws.

Question 3

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

Revolt · Accepted Answer

poll workers having voters read aloud to prove they are literate

Question 4

Which of these did the Civil Rights Act accomplish?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

It ended public segregation.

Question 5

The Civil Rights Act expanded

Revolt · Accepted Answer

the federal government’s power.

Question 6

When was the Voting Rights Act passed?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

1965

Question 7

The Voting Rights Act ended

Revolt · Accepted Answer

literacy tests.

Extending Voting Rights — Quiz Answers

More from this Course

TRY EDGENUITY HACKS