This test covers all topics in the module above.  Questions are added as each section is published.  Read each question and decide in your head what the answer is.  Click the empty cell in the last column to see the correct answer.

The Electoral College System	Which Article of the US Constitution outlines the process for selection of a US President?	Article II
	What part of the Constitution guarantees each US citizen's right to vote for a President?	No part of the Constitution does this
	Which two states do not award all of their electoral votes to the presidential ticket with the most popular votes within their states?	Maine and Nebraska.  They award one per congressional district then give the statewide popular vote winner the two remaining votes.

Who Could Vote in the First Presidential Election?	Which of the original 13 states were not represented in electoral vote counting in the first election?	New York, Rhode Island, and North Carolina
	How many of the 10 states who did submit electoral ballots chose electors solely by decision of state legislature	Five
	Which of these 10 states had a constitution specifically including women among those potentially eligible to vote?	Pennsylvania
	Who became President as a result of the first election?	George Washington
	Who became Vice President?	John Adams

Black Suffrage	Which amendment to the US Constitution confers citizenship on all people born or naturalized in the United States (including former slaves)?	14th Amendment
	What did the 15th Amendment provide?	That the right to vote could be neither denied nor abridged on the basis of race, color or previous condition of servitude.
	In what year was the Civil Rights Division of the US Justice Department created?	1957

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