Name: ____________________________
U.S. Government
Date: ________________________
Period: ________________
The Electorate Matching
_____1. African American
A. those who were the only ones to be allowed
to vote.
_____2. 19th Amendment
B. you must complete one in order to be able
to vote.
_____3. Suffrage
C. The group that was allowed to vote with the
15th Amendment
_____4. Not the electorate
D. 1st significant event of electorate expansion
_____5. Vietnam War
E. having the right to vote and actually voting
_____6. Voting Rights Act 1965
F. have been the largest group of voters in the
U.S.
_____7. Citizenship
G. did not get the right to vote until 1920.
_____8. Electorate
H. all ethnicities benefited from this.
_____9. White Landowners
I. lowered the voting age from 21 to 18
____ 10. Upper Class
J. way to increase the number of voters
____11. 15th Amendment
K. people who actually vote
____12. Free Slaves
L. group that represented the teenage group in
voting.
____13. women
M. a requirement in order to be eligible to vote.
____14. Expanding the electorate
____15. 26th Amendment
N. dominating our society
O. finally gave women the right to vote.
____16. Federal Government
P. reason why the 26th Amendment was
ratified
____17. Poor white men
Q. first non-white who were able to vote
____18. Registration Card
R. assisted with efforts to register minority
voters
____19. Middle Class
S. All eligible voters
____20. Young people
T. ratified after the civil war was over