Beacuse the federal goverment gets to do what tyhey wan to.
African Americans had to pay a tax in order to vote. They also had to take a literacy test to see if they could read but they failed it anyway so they could not vote. The Grandfather Clause states that their grandfather could not be slave in order to vote. But slavery had ended a few years back which made most not being a able to vote.
The first case of using two words as a scientific name _____. was introduced by John Ray was introduced during the Renaissance was introduced by the Greeks
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