The most likely result of the voting rights act of 1965 was a) the abolition of poll taxes was overturned. b) literacy tests were instituted as a requirement to vote. c) the federal government would be allowed to oversee elections. d) eighteen year old african americans were given the right to vote.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was created in response to a tremendous irregularity happening in the United States during the time. In many states of the country there were measurements being taken that undermined the right to vote of African-Americans in spite of the existence of the 15th amendment. This act came to invalidate any sort of devices that were being used to prevent them from voting, such were as absurd as a literacy test or officers asking African-American men to recite the entire Constitution to prove they were capable of voting. When the rest of the country and the federal government became aware of this situation due to some terrible incidents that were exposed, President Johnson signed the bill in the presence of Martin Luther King and other important civil rights leaders on August 6th, 1965.

this act gave the federal government the power to relocate any native in the east to territory west of the mississippi river.

on 6 november american voters will elect members of the house of representatives and the senate, which together are called congress.

both houses of congress are currently controlled by the republican party, which backs president donald trump.

the democrats think they can win control of the house of representatives this year by winning a majority of seats.

doing so would let them block or delay the president’s plans by refusing to enact them.

all 435 seats in the house of representatives are up for election.

if the democrats want to take control of the house by having the most seats, they’re going to have to claim at least 23 from the republicans.

graphic: the battle for the house of representatives