The <span>Fifteenth Amendment </span>had practically no effect in southern states, which devised numerous ways such as poll taxes and grandfather clauses to keep blacks from voting. Over time, federal laws and Supreme Court judicial opinions eventually struck down voting restrictions for blacks. Eventually, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 which established a commission to investigate voting discrimination.<span> And in 1965 the Voting Rights Act was passed to increase black voter registration by empowering the </span>Justice Department<span> to closely monitor voting qualifications. that is basicly what i know but i hope this does help =)</span>
The British attacked Washington DC for all of the following reasons, except "<span>a. to get revenge on the US for attacking the British at Waterloo," since this was a completely different war. </span><span />
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla launched the war with the issuing of his "Grito de Delores"
International influence, also they had just defeated Spain when they begun having imperial ambitions, therefore they may want to fill that gap
