Some people in the north thought of all the south as barbaric. Also he wanted only for a unified america to emerge. It was also bad for the south because a new civil war almost arose.
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The act was about ensuring people have voting rights and preventing states from preventing voting rights in various ways such as having literacy tests or voting taxes or anything similar. One effect can be that it enabled for all people to vote regardless of color or origin, and another is that it enabled minorities and immigrants to vote too because it enabled minorities who didn't know English that well to vote using bilingual ballots.
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I don't have the proper answer and you might have to do research but America did gain much from the war such as Cuba, The Philipines, and Guam.
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David R. Montgomery (first)