They fought in many different ways. Some retaliated with physical violence towards their masters and owners and at the entire community. Others escaped their masters and tried bringing their plight to court though very few actually succeeded in doing so.
The reason that president Wilson gave for the Congress to support his request for a declaration of war was (b.) that the german agenda threatened democracy.
<u>The United States officially entered World War I in April 1917</u>. The U.S. president during the entire war was Woodrow Wilson. <u>He was the one that requested the Congress to support his declaration of war since he believed that democracy had to be protected</u>. Wilson had already broken off diplomatic relations with Germany bu<u>t Germany, which had an unrestricted submarine warfare, tried to convince Mexico to go to war against the United States in exchange of financial and territorial rewards</u>; in other words, Germany would help Mexico to regain Texas, New Mexico and Arizona if they fought against the United States.<u> Wilson felt that the country could not stand that and decided to fight for the rights and liberties of the United States by declaring war</u>. Consequently, the House of Representatives voted in favor of the war by 373 votes to 50.
When the Voting Rights Act was signed into law on the 6th of August, 1965 by President Lyndon Johnson it made discriminatory voting practices illegal especially in the Southern Post-Civil war States.
<h3>Examples of the Discriminatory Voting Practices outlawed by the Voting Right Act</h3>
Examples of the Discriminatory Voting Practices outlawed by the Voting Right Act are:
- The requirement of a literacy test as a requirement for voting
- Segregation
- Black enfranchisement
- Poll taxes etc.
See the link below for more about Voting Rights Act:
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