<span>After the success of the Sputnik launch in 1957, the US feared that the Soviet Union would be able to use space-based weapons against the United States, which is why the US frantically began the "Space Race". </span>
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Southern state legislatures employed literacy tests as part of the voter registration process starting in the late 19th century. Literacy tests, along with poll taxes, residency and property restrictions and extra-legal activities (violence, intimidation) were all used to deny suffrage to African Americans.
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They had just won their independence, so they weren't involved in European affairs due to the limited power they had and their focus on their country's stability.
Explanation:
The Revolutionary War had ended in 1783, and Congress haven't made an official leader named, nor enforced order in the country, so there was little chance they had enough authority to be recognized in European countries and were weakened from the war.
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