How Did the 1970 Amendments to the Voting Rights Act

question 48

Multiple Choice

How did the 1970 amendments to the Voting Rights Act strengthen voting rights?

• A)They made literacy tests mandatory for presidential elections.
• B)They made literacy tests illegal and mandated bilingual ballots or other assistance
• For non-English-speaking Americans.
• C)They gave 18-year-olds the right to vote.
• D)They made poll taxes illegal.

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Significance Level

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The average value of a characteristic among all individuals or items within a defined population.

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A probability distribution that is symmetric and bell-shaped, used in hypothesis testing and setting confidence intervals when the sample size is small.

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