During the mid-nineteenth century, many Americans <span>"moved to cities in search of economic opportunity.</span>" People were leaving their jobs on the farms and taking higher-paying jobs in factories, which tended to be in major cities.
The Twenty-fourth Amendment (Amendment XXIV) of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.
On this date in 1962, the House passed the 24th Amendment, outlawing the poll tax as a voting requirement in federal elections, by a vote of 295 to 86. At the time, five states maintained poll taxes which disproportionately affected African-American voters: Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Texas.
The issue of new gunpowder cartridges for the Enfield rifle in February 1857.
Deism is the teaching that God exists, that he created the universe and
everything in it, but that he stopped being involved in the universe and
in people's lives after he made the universe.
