Chapter 8

Question 1

Voting age population

Answer 1

Citizens who are eligible to vote after reaching the minimum age requirement

Question 2

Voting eligible population

Answer 2

Citizens who have reached the minimum age to be eligible to vote, excluding those who are not
Legally permitted to cast a ballot

Question 3

Registered voters

Answer 3

People who are registered to vote

Question 4

Literacy test

Answer 4

A requirement that citizens who that they can read before registering to
Vote

Question 5

Poll tax

Answer 5

A requirement that citizens pay a tax on order to register to vote

Question 6

Grandfather clause

Answer 6

A clause in registration laws allowing people who do not
Meet registration to
Vote if they or their ancestors had voted before 1867

Question 7

White primary

Answer 7

The practice of keeping blacks from voting in the southern states primaries through arbitrary use of registration and requirements and intimidation

Question 8

Australian ballot

Answer 8

A government printed ballot of uniform deme jobs to be cast in secret that many states adopted around 1890 to reduce voting fraud associated with party printed ballots cast in public

Question 9

Activists

Answer 9

People who tend to participate in all forms of politics

Question 10

Political participation

Answer 10

The many different ways that people take part in politics and government