Between 1915 and 1925, the size of the eligible voting population in the United States almost doubled. The main reason for this was that

A. the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified.
B. women were given the right to vote.
C. the grandfather clause, which denied voting to blacks, was ruled unconstitutional.
D. literacy tests for blacks were ruled unconstitutional.
E. voter-registration laws were abolished in seventeen states.

Answer: B

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