What is a direct effect of citizens voting?A.Tax money is distributed to reflect citizens' desires.B.Social Security and Medicare receive more funding.C.Elections are held more often.D.More citizens participate in juries.

What is a direct effect of citizens voting?A.Citizens participate more in community service.B.Public parks and leisure facilities improve.C.Political leaders better understand which policies citizens support.D.Police departments are better equipped.

Which situation would most likely result from citizens engaging in civic participation?A.New people begin to run for public office.B.Citizens participate more on juries.C.Citizens' representatives in Congress are voted out.D.Citizens make a difference in public policy.

How does civic participation primarily influence the political process in the United States?A.It tells citizens how elected officials feel about particular issues.B.It allows the military to remain staffed when needed.C.It keeps the government from becoming too powerful.D.It lets elected officials know how citizens wish them to act.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

The Congress finds that the requirement of the payment of a poll tax as a precondition to voting (i) precludes persons of limited means from voting or imposes unreasonable financial hardship upon such persons as a precondition to their exercise of the franchise, (ii) does not bear a reasonable relationship to any legitimate State interest in the conduct of elections, and (iii) in some areas has the purpose or effect of denying persons the right to vote because of race or color. Upon the basis of these findings, Congress declares that the constitutional right of citizens to vote is denied or abridged in some areas by the requirement of the payment of a poll tax as a precondition to voting.1According to this excerpt, why was the Voting Rights Act needed to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment?A.The Fifteenth Amendment had not been ratified by enough states to go into effect.B.States discriminated against women who registered to vote.C.Congress lacked the power to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment outside of the federal government.D.States were using poll taxes to deny African Americans their voting rights.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

What argument best responds to citizens who do not vote because they feel that their votes do not make a difference?A.Voting is mandatory by law.B.Voting is less important than other types of civic engagement.C.Elections are often decided by only a few votes.D.Voting is a symbolic act whose importance is not about making a difference.