Answer: The answer is:
In Smith v. Allwright (1944), the Supreme Court held that <em>the restrictions against blacks were unconstitutional.</em>
Explanation:
The Democratic primary system of Texas allowed whites to structurally dominate the politics of the one-party South. Lonnie E. Smith, a black man, whose right to vote in the 1940 Texas Democratic primary was denied by Allwright a county election official.
The Supreme court held that this was unconstitutional and violated the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.
Correct answer:
<h2>reports of North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. ships</h2>
Further details:
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was a measure that allowed the US President to make military actions, like increase troops, without formal declaration of war. It led to huge escalation of US involvement in the Vietnam War.
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, passed by Congress in August, 1964, after alleged attacks on two US naval ships in the Gulf of Tonkin. The key wording in the resolution said:
- <em>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the Congress approves and supports the determination of the President, as Commander in Chief, to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression.</em>
That resolution served as a blank check for President Johnson to send troops to whatever extent he deemed necessary in pursuance of the war. Between 1964 and the end of Johnson's presidency in 1969, US troop levels in Vietnam increased from around 20,000 to over 500,000.
During the constitutional convention, the commerce and slave trade compromise gave congress the power to regulate commerce
