The Voting Rights Act was amended several times in the decades that followed, extending its coverage and increasing the government’s authority to determine where federal oversight was needed.
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Answer:
C
Explanation:
The Qing government was obliged to pay the British government six million silver dollars for the opium that had been confiscated by Lin Zexu in 1839
The northern lawmakers needed the state to join the union instead of the confederacy, because if they joined the confederacy, the Union would be weaker. They got the Missouri on their side by allowing it to hold slaves (but that could easily be overturned, so getting the state was more of a priority than having slavery or not)
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