The Voting Rights Act<span>, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson (1908-73) on August 6, </span>1965<span>, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to </span>vote<span> under the 15th Amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States.</span>
<span>Nationalism helped lead to WWI because it caused conflict because nationalism is the feeling that one nationality is better than the other</span>