Author Question: To strengthen protections of the franchise, in 1965, Congress passed the __________ Act, which ... (Read 31 times)

Pineappleeh · **on:** Aug 4, 2018

To strengthen protections of the franchise, in 1965, Congress passed the __________ Act, which effectively ended literacy tests and other strategies that had discriminated against African Americans at the polls and gave the Justice Department the authority to supervise voter registration in locales that had discriminated.

A) Civil Rights
B) Equal Voting
C) Federal Rights
D) Motor Voter
E) Voting Rights

Question 2

The Seventeenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-Third, and Twenty-Sixth Amendments have which of the following in common?

A) They expand the powers of the national government.
B) They expand the powers of the state governments.
C) The expand the powers of both the national and state governments.
D) They extend gateways to public participation.
E) They helped apply the Bill of Rights to the states.