A.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 required
the federal government to inspect local voter registration procedures to ensure that all Americans had
an equal opportunity to vote.
b. local voter registration officials to ensure that African Americans had an equal opportunity to run for
public office.
the federal government to enforce the Supreme Court ruling on desegregation.
d.
areas with large immigrant populations to provide ballots in voters' preferred language,
c

Which statement in the passage best reflects sumer's opinion of the dred scott decision? a."i speak what cannot be denied." b."[the] judgment was sustained by a falsification of history." b."the opinion was more thoroughly abominable than anything history." i speak what cannot be denied when i declare that the opinion of the chief justice in the case of dred scott was more thoroughly abominable than anything of the kind in the history of courts. judicial baseness reached its lowest point on that occasion. you have not forgotten that terrible decision where a most unrighteous judgment was sustained by a falsification of history. -charles sumner, 1865