Answer:
the civil rights act of 1964
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The other person is right
Answer:
Right choice:
D) Found themselves increasingly left out of the political process because of poll taxes and literacy tests.
Explanation:
After the Civil War, despite their defeat and the passing of the 14th Amendment in 1868, southern states passed legislation whose practical purpose was to keep black people, formally free, in poverty, without access to education and being unable to exercise their civic rights such as voting. Those laws later became known as the Jim Crow laws. Black Americans lived in a segregation system de facto in the South that denied them dignity and a decent living standard.
The escalation of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal led to distrust among the public of the American government. Up until the 1960's and 1970's, Americans were typically approving of the government. They patriotically followed President Roosevelt into World War II and praised the government for helping them out of the Great Depression. The government played it relatively safe in the '50's and Americans didn't mind because they were experiencing great prosperity and didn't want to get involved in another major war. By the time the '60's and '70's rolled around, the Vietnam War was a source of contention because people didn't really agree with the war and the government began hiding information and lying to the public to maintain what little support they still had. The real hit came when Nixon became implicated in the Watergate scandal causing the public to mistrust the government even more. Both of these events demonstrated to the American public that the great leaders of America aren't as great as they're played up to be.