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Unit 6 Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The term for the general public voting on a specific issue or decision, such as whether to raise taxes | Referendum |
| The term for the gathering at which community residents discuss and vote on issues of importance | Town meeting |
| The minimum age to be able to vote in the United States today | Eighteen |
| The term for treating people unjustly based on certain characteristics | Discrimination |
| The term that was used for women who worked for women to get the right to vote | Suffragettes |
| Two ways that states used to keep African Americans from voting | Poll tax, literacy test |
| How the poll tax was outlawed | Twenty-fourth Amendment |
| How literacy tests were outlawed | Voting Rights Acts of 1965 |
| The process of redrawing congressional and state legislature districts to make the population in each more equal | Redistricting |
| These have the responsibility for carrying out the process of redrawing congressional and state legislature districts to make the population in each more equal | State legislatures |