Chapter 5.1 Flashcards
How does the Constitution and legislation protect voting rights, and how do models relate to voting behaviors?
Electorate
Large percentage of American people who vote
Franchise
The right to vote
Suffarage
Qualifications for voting
Fifteenth Amedment
Right to vote is not based on race, color, or previous servitude.
Nineteenth Amendment
All genders can vote
Twenty-Third Amendment
D.C’s electoral votes
Twenty-Fourth Amendment
Ending the poll tax
Twenty-Sixth Amendment
Voting age is 18
Literacy Test
Test at the polls to see if people were smart enough to vote (targeted towards people of color)
Poll Tax
Fee required to vote
Grandfather Clause
States recognize voter if they would have recognized their grandfather.
White Primary
Only white people vote in the primaries.
Seventeenth Amendment
Popular elections for senators
1957 Civil Rights Act
Established the US Office of Civil Rights. Addressed voter discrimination.
1964 Civil Rights Act
Ended “separate but equal” and fought discrimination.
1965 Voting Rights Act
Outlawed literacy tests. The government watched states with low racial voter turnout.
Preclearance
Put states under supervision if they tried to find loopholes to diminish black suffrage.
Rational-Choice Voting
Voting based on how it would benefit you.
Retrospective Voting
Voting based on how candidates performed in the past.
Prospective Voting
Voting based on how the future will be impacted.
Party-Line Voting
Vote for whoever’s from your party.
Party Identification
What party you identify with.
