Civil Rights Movement

Question 1

How long do you have to be eligible to vote in MS?

Answer 1

30 days

Question 2

In 1982, how many registered voters voted

Answer 2

55%

Question 3

Who did the founding fathers want to discriminate?

Answer 3

Quakers

Question 4

What amendment gave women the right to vote?

Answer 4

19th

Question 5

What was the first Civil Rights Act we adopted in the United States?

Answer 5

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 6

What is the major reason for people not voting?

Answer 6

Apathy

Question 7

What are the 3 reasons to lose voting rights?

Answer 7

Felony, kicked out the military, and declared mentally insane

Question 8

What is the fairest tax?

Answer 8

Sales Tax

Question 9

Poll tax

Answer 9

a tax that has adopted as a requirement for voting

Question 10

What state has poll tax?

Answer 10

New Hampshire

Question 11

What amendment made poll tax illegal in all 50 states and territories?

Answer 11

24th

Question 12

Precincts

Answer 12

voting districts

Question 13

What state does not require citizens to vote?

Answer 13

North Dakota

Question 14

Bond election

Answer 14

an election to raise your property tax to finance a particular project

Question 15

What amendment lowered the voting age to 18?

Answer 15

26th

Question 16

Who does the federal voting examiners work for?

Answer 16

Attorney General

Question 17

Civil Rights Commission

Answer 17

major objective was to investigate voter discrimination

Question 18

Who made efforts to get involve the Civil Rights Movement?

Answer 18

Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 19

Is the right to vote political or civil?

Answer 19

Political

Question 20

What Supreme Court case made the Grandfather clause illegal?

Answer 20

Guinn vs the United States

Question 21

What Supreme Court case banned literacy?

Answer 21

Oregon vs Mitchell

Question 22

Reasons why we changed the voting laws

Answer 22

Morally right and political leaders can gain support

Question 23

How long was the Voting Rights Act of 1965 suppose to last?

Answer 23

5 years

Question 24

What Supreme Court case ruled the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

Answer 24

South Carolina vs Katzenbach

Question 25

Reasons that would require you to re-register to vote?

Answer 25

Moved and voting records are purged

Question 26

What Supreme Court case banned property tax?

Answer 26

Hill vs Stone

Question 27

3 requirements to vote

Answer 27

Citizenship, same age requirements, and residency

Question 28

5 historical stages of voting process

Answer 28

Religious orders, gender, age, race, and civil rights movement

Question 29

What Civil Rights Act gave the civil rights commission?

Answer 29

1957

Question 30

What Civil Rights Act said anyone with proof of a 6th grade education is not required to take a literacy test?

Answer 30

1964

Question 31

What Civil Rights Act called the appointment of voting for referee and authorized federal judges to issue certifications of eligibility to voters?

Answer 31

1960

Question 32

What Civil Right said any new law pertains to voting procedure must be approved?

Answer 32

1965

Question 33

What Civil Rights Act required ballots to be printed in another language?

Answer 33

1975

Question 34

What states did the Civil Right of 1965 affect?

Answer 34

MS, AL, Ga, La, Va, and SC

Question 35

Are we still under the Civil Rights of 1965?

Answer 35

Yes

Question 36

Suffrage

Answer 36

the right to vote

Question 37

Harper vs Virginia

Answer 37

raised property tax

Question 38

What state allowed women to vote?

Answer 38

Wyoming

Question 39

What amendment should have solved the race issue?

Answer 39

15th

Question 40

Should dead people be able to vote?

Answer 40

No, voting records should be purged