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American Diversity Quizzes / February 2020

15th Amendment Quiz

Question 1

The focus of the Fifteenth Amendment is

African American citizenship.
suffrage for African American men.
prohibition of slavery.
None of the above

Question 2

Which term is associated with discrimination against African Americans in the American South?

Jim Crow
Reconstruction
Gilded Age
Jacksonian Democracy

Question 3

Which of the following were used by white supremacists to deny the franchise to African Americans?

poll taxes
intimidation and violence
literacy tests and discriminatory “grandfather clauses”
All of the above

Question 4

Which of the following is true of arguments that claim ongoing voter suppression?

Attempts to prevent voter fraud are likely to disenfranchise low-income people more than others.
Critics call these claims a myth.
A Supreme Court decision in 2013 was followed by states’ efforts to curb voter fraud.
All of the above

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