Question

As described in the text, the Voting Rights Act was a solution created to address what

problem?
A. African Americans did not yet have the right to vote.
B. Women did not yet have the right to vote.
C. African Americans were being prevented from exercising their right to vote.
D. Women were being prevented from exercising their right to vote.

Answer 1

The Voting Rights Act was a solution for addressing option C.) “African Americans were being prevented from exercising their right to vote.”

The Voting Rights Act took effect in 1965, when African Americans were deprived of their right to vote. The significance of this was that it took place during the most transitional point of the Civil Rights Movement, and a violation of the 15th amendment was brought up, which endowed African American males the Constitutional right to vote. The period in which women addressed their voting rights was called the Women’s Suffrage Movement.