To restrict the ability of African Americans to exercise voting rights.
The black community had less access to education than whites even after slavery was ended; thus their literacy rates were lower. They also experienced much poverty because of prejudice against them in the economic system of the country, so poll taxes could keep them from going to the polls to vote. The "grandfather clauses" were exemptions granted by some states to those whose forefathers ("grandfathers") had full voting rights prior to the Civil War, so if there were poor or illiterate whites, they could vote freely while blacks (whose ancestors had been slaves) were subjected to the laws restricting their voting ability.
These sorts of restrictions against black voters prompted much of the activism of the civil rights movement that began in the middle of the 20th century.
The political leaders drafted and signed the declaration of the united nations. they decided that the defeat of the axis in europe was necessary, and the military chiefs discussed an invasion of north africa, completed arrangements for american forces to relieve british troops in iceland and northern ireland, made plans for american reinforcement in the south pacific and set up a combined allied command for south east asia.
One of the ways in which English kings increased their power and reduce the power of the nobles was that they "strengthened the courts"--since this allowed more of their laws and decrees to pass.
Answer:
While the colonists lost many minutemen, the Battles of Lexington and Concord were considered a major military victory and displayed to the British and King George III that unjust behavior would not be tolerated in America. The battles also constituted the first military conflicts of the American Revolution.
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