THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
JOHN F KENNEDY AND THE COLD WAR
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Question
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965
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was a campaign to register voters for the 1968 presidential election that allowed the president to send federal officials to every state to register voters
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was part of Lyndon Johnson’ “Great Society” and authorized the president to suspend literacy tests and send federal officials to register voters if county officials failed to do so
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was part of Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” and allowed states to register voters how they saw fit, with no oversight from the Federal government
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was a campaign to register voters for the 1964 presidential election that allowed the president to directly oversee voter registration across the United States
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Still, the Voting Rights Act gave African American voters the legal means to challenge voting restrictions and vastly improved voter turnout. In Mississippi alone, voter turnout among Black people increased from 6 percent in 1964 to 59 percent in 1969.
Detailed explanation-2: -This act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.
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