Answer:
a courts authority to hear a case is its jurisdiction
the supreme court may hear a case first heard in a lower court under its appellate jurisdiction
When a court hears a case that has not been heard before, its exercising original jurisdiction
Answer:
question 1: They increased the territory of the US
question 2: Many Americans felt it was their God given right and duty to move westward and expand democracy
question 3: The land was needed to complete a railroad
Answer:
The right answer is A) Literacy tests were banned and federal enforcement powers strengthened.
Explanation:
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 intended to eliminate barriers erected in southern states that impeded African-Americans from voting, a violation of the 15th Amendment. One common obstacle used to block black people was to make them pass literacy tests. This population had lived for centuries in opression, poverty and lack of education opportunities. That was a repugnant racist trick to make ineffective the rights of a good part of American society.
C is the corrrect answer I believe
