The 24th Amendment prohibited poll taxes or other taxes as qualifications for voting.
Poll taxes had been a way states had discriminated against black voters, by using their lower income status and poll taxes as a way to prevent them from going to the polls. During the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, this was challenged. The 24th Amendment, ratified in 1964, said: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax," and added: "The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."
To deal with internal and external pressures after the Taiping rebellion, People in China were divided into two factions that have different school od thought on how to deal with the problems:
- Those who believe that China should stick to the Confucianism value that they held for a long time
- Those who believed that china should handle the problems by adopting the values from western nations.
Eventually, those who believed that China should opened itself to western nations gained more dominance in the country. China started to opened up trading relationship and acquire the development in technology that introduced by the western nations.
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Impact of Dunkirk While the German blitzkrieg was undoubtedly successful (France would call for an armistice by mid-June 1940), the largely successful evacuation of the bulk of Britain's trained troops from near-annihilation proved to be a key moment in the Allied war effort.
