Implementation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act Credit: Bettmann/Getty

question 25

Multiple Choice

Implementation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act Credit: Bettmann/Getty Images
-Based on the image,which of the following aided implementation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

• A)federal registrars dispatched to Southern counties
• B)the support of Southern governors
• C)the spoils system
• D)the use of incentive systems -Consider This: When the typical forms of regulatory control failed to achieve results in the federal government's attempt to uphold African American voting rights in the South,a more direct method of bureaucratic intervention was utilized.

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