Question

What are two things the Voting Rights Act of 1965 accomplished? Select all that apply.

Answer 1

It removed the use of poll taxes and it made literacy tests illegal in voting

Answer 2

Two things that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 accomplished were:

-It removed the use of poll taxes.

-It made literacy tests illegal in voting.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a historic law within American law since it prohibited discriminatory practices in the right to vote for African-Americans in the United States. This law achieved that (almost 100 years after the enactment of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which prohibits any type of discrimination based on the race or color of the citizens of the United States) the constitutional right to vote was protected, because until that moment there were states that, in order to vote, demanded literacy tests or the payment of some tax, using these resources to limit the right to vote of African American people. This law was promulgated by President Lyndon B. Johnson, who had already enacted the Civil Rights Act the previous year.