Across
- 2. that tend to vote in noticeable patterns
- 3. former slaves and free blacks the right to vote and was the first federal mandate affecting state voting requirements
- 4. Rights Act/first such bill since Reconstruction that addressed discrimination in voter registration and established the U.S. Office of Civil Rights, and enforcement agency in the Justice Department
- 8. elections for senators became the law of the land
- 12. women the right to vote
- 14. who go to the polls to cast a vote for the American president and some lower offices
- 15. difference in political views between men and women and how these views are expressed at the voting booth
- 17. popular method for southern states to keep African Americans from voting
- 18. that voters be able to read; formerly used in the South to disenfranchise blacks.
- 19. that their vote makes a difference
- 20. poll taxes in any federal elections
Down
- 1. states to recognize a registering voter as it would have recognized his grandfather, prevented scores of blacks from voting, while it allowed illiterate and poor whites to circumvent the literacy test and poll tax requirements
- 5. over the age of 18, and in nearly all states, they must also be non-felons
- 6. right to vote
- 7. who look backward to consider candidates' track records
- 9. act/the most effective bill to bring the black populace into the political process
- 10. simple fee required to vote
- 11. Washington D.C. 3 electoral college votes
- 13. popular leader and advocate for expanding suffrage to all white men
- 16. lack of concern for the election outcome