In Ancient Athens, women were not treated equally to men and mostly only served as wives and mothers. Women were treated particularly poorly when it came to marriage, though they cold own property under certain circumstances.
The 24th Amendment prohibited poll taxes or other taxes as qualifications for voting.
Poll taxes had been a way states had discriminated against black voters, by using their lower income status and poll taxes as a way to prevent them from going to the polls. During the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, this was challenged. The 24th Amendment, ratified in 1964, said: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax," and added: "The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."
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The storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris ,France ,on the afternoon of 14 July 1789.
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The medieval armory , fortress and political prison known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the centre of Paris.
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Truman was highly suspicious of STalin's motives. He was much less trusting than Roosevelt, who had relied on the theme of mutual cooperation to achieve his objectives. Stalin refused to reduce the size of the Red Army, the biggest in theworld.
President Harry Truman records his impressions of meeting Stalin. On this day in 1945, President Harry S. ... Truman hoped to get the Soviets to join in the U.S. war against Japan. In return, Stalin wanted to impose Soviet control over certain territories annexed at the beginning of the war by Japan and Germany.
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