Instructor: Mark Pearcy. In this lesson, we'll be looking at the expressed powers of the United States Congress. Learn what these powers are and examples of them, and then you'll be able to test your knowledge of them with a quiz.
The 17, 19, 23, 24, and 26 amendments have expanded voting rights.
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by ap-propriate legislation. Fifteenth Amendment(1870) THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965 By 1965, a century after the Civil War, African Americans in the South still faced barriers to the right to vote, despite the Fifteenth Amendmentâs guarantee.