What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 do?
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 banned discriminatory voting practices like literacy tests, which had been used to keep Black Americans from voting.
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- When were women given the right to vote in the united states?
“In 1920 the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed giving the right of women to vote. The Nineteenth Amendment prohibits state and federal government from denying the right to vote to vote by any citizen because of their sex.”
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