Chap. 6 Test

1.  Provide a paragraph on an important issue of your choice from Section 1:
     The Expansion of the Electorate: In 1789, the right to vote in the U.S. was restricted to the white male prperty owners. The voting population is very impressive. Age of 18 years can now vote. In 1789 the nation has experieaced the gradual elimination of several restrictions on the right to vote such as religious beliefs, property ownership, tax payment, and sex. The States' poewer on the right to vote has been assumed by the Federal Government.


2.  Provide a paragraph on an important issue of your choice from Section 2:
     Tax Payment: Several States demanded the payment of a special tax call the poll tax for voting. In 1889, the southern States adopted the poll tax as part of their effort to discourage voting by African Americans. It provided to be of only limited effectiveness. The 24th Amendment was ratified in 1964, outlawed the poll tax or any other tax. The Supreme Court eliminated the poll tas as a qualification for voting in all elections in 1966.


3.  Provide a paragraph on an important issue of your choice from Section 3:
     The Civil Rights Act of 1964: The Civil Rights Act outlaws discrimination in several areas, especially in job-related matters.  It forbids the use of any boter registration or literacy requirement in an unfair or discriminatory manner.  The law continued a pattern set in the earlier laws. It relied on judicial action to overcome racial barriers and the use of federal court orders called the injunction. The injunction is a court order that either compels forces or restrains the performance of some act by a private individual or by a public official.


4.  Provide a paragraph on an important issue of your choice from Section 4:
     Factors That Influence Voters:  Sociology is a study of groups and how people vote. The factors  affecting voter behavior are really the many pieces of a voter's social and economic life. The two pieces are the voter's personal characteristics like age, race, income, occupation, education, religion and so on. The second ts the voter's group affiliations like family, co-workers, friends, and the like. The Psychology is the study of the mind and of the individual behavior. The factors influence voter behavior on perceptons of politics.


5. Explain voter apathy and what can be done to help it:
    In the presidental elections and in the off-year elections are now in the lowest rate of voter participation in the world.  More than half of America's nonparticipants are nonvoters- people who have never voted or hardly ever vote. Most American's are dropping out of the political process and there is a very real danger that the good citizenship will die.  We need in increase the amount and of civic education in homes and schools. Also we need to get each citizen to vote because the vote does make a difference.


6. Explain the qualifications for registering to vote
   The registration gives election officials a list of thos persons who are qualified to vote in an election. Also Several states use ir to identify voters in terms of their party. They have to register in order to vote in any election held within the State. The voter must register their name, age, place of birth, present address, length of residence and similar facts.  The Moter Voter Law directs to every State to allow all eligible citizens to register and to apply or renew a driver's license. It provides for voter registration by mail and makes registration forms available at local offices of State employment,  and welfare.