Answer:
E. it aided the election of Ulysses Grant to the presidency in 1868.
Explanation:
Following the end of the Civil War, fifteen amendment was passed in 1870, which extended the voting rights to African-Americans. It states that no government or state shall deny the voting rights of the citizens of the country based on their color, race or previous condition of servitude. The amendment proved vital for the reelection of the Republican party.
In the 1760's Great Britain started imposing taxes on the colonies to pay off the French and Indian War. Colonists who didn't want to pay the taxes would smuggle goods in.
