The legal methods used to deny African Americans the right to vote, such as literacy tests and poll taxes, were overcome by ______.

a. passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Twenty-Fourth Amendment
b. an executive order issued by President Lyndon Johnson
c. changes in the political leadership of the southern states
d. passage of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution
e. Reconstruction

a. passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Twenty-Fourth Amendment

Political Science

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The original purpose of the 1787 meeting in Philadelphia was to __________

a. repeal thestay acts b. approve the Bill of Rights for the new Constitution c. amend and strengthen the Articles of Confederation d. write a new constitution for the United States

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The __________________ Treaty was/is an attempt to address the problem of emissions and global warming that the United States has failed to ratify

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

Political Science