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 Alien and Sedition Act, Amnesty Law, and <span>Espionage Act of 1917 unauthorized the president to arrest and deport immigrants who criticized the federal government and limit the free speech of Americans.</span>
Napoleon impacted both Europe and the world in a number of ways. When thinking about Napoleon’s impact, we have to realize that he did not necessarily intend to have the impacts that he did. Instead, much of his impact came about inadvertently or even in response to his actions.
One of the biggest impacts that Napoleon had was that he caused a major backlash against his ideas and against the prospect that a single country...
