Author Question: What event motivated passage of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment? a. Pressure from the UN to provide ... (Read 72 times)

panfilo · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

What event motivated passage of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment?

a. Pressure from the UN to provide universal suffrage to all adults.
b. The National Guard shooting students at Kent State.
c. The Vietnam War took the lives of many young American soldiers.
d. Colleges and universities raised tuition nationwide.
e. People under 21 protested the collection of taxes without receiving representation through voting.

Question 2

The Twenty-Sixth Amendment in 1971 made what change with regard to voting?

a. Women were granted the right to vote.
b. Native Americans were granted full citizenship.
c. The voting age was lowered nationwide to eighteen years old.
d. Former slaves were given the right to vote.
e. Poll taxes were made illegal nationwide.