Identify an accurate statement about voting rights in the history ...

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Identify an accurate statement about voting rights in the history of American politics.
 
  A) Literary tests were tactics used by the state to encourage African Americans to vote.
  B) The grandfather clause was a technique used to disenfranchise black voters.
  C) The Sixteenth Amendment explicitly denied African Americans the right to vote.
  D) The white primary law prevented whites from voting in Democratic primary elections.
  E) The poll tax limited voting to those whose ancestors could vote after the Civil War.

Question 2

Which of the following statements is true of de facto segregation?
 
  A) It results from the political, social, and economic inequality of rights between men and women.
  B) It is solely based on intellectual differences in people.
  C) It occurs because of social and economic conditions and residential patterns.
  D) It is a form of discrimination between Asian Americans and African Americans.
  E) It is the deliberate intent of the government and is established by law.

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Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

C