Read this passage from the Voting Rights Act.

No voting qualification or prerequisite to voting . . . shall be imposed or applied by any State . . . to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color.

–Voting Rights Act,
1965

Based on the passage, the Voting Rights Act

A. made it illegal to create voting laws that discriminated.
B. gave states the power to impose their own voting rules.
C. established a set of qualifications required for voters.
D. made it legal to impose a poll tax on all potential voters.

A. made it illegal to create voting laws that discriminated.

Explanation:

This fragment is a clear and categoric rejection of the Jim Crow laws that were passed in the South in the decades following the Civil War, and which aimed to impede black Americans from exercising their full right to vote. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed with the goal of finishing those discriminatory  practices at in towns, counties and in states.

A. made it illegal to create voting laws that discriminated.

Explanation:

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