Explain the significance of the following words ordinance and depreciate

Ordinance: A rule of law that signifies authority and command. It is a command establish for the public to heed.

Depreciation: to lessen the value of something usually a property or an asset. It can also be connected to reducing the purchasing power of money. 

Depreciation  is an accounting method in which a cost is allocated to all the tangible assets over its useful life and used to find out the decline in value. Long term assets are depreciated by the businesses for tax and accounting purposes. For taxes, they can deduct the cost of tangible assets purchased by them for business expenses. While the ordinance is a decree issued by national or state government without the consent of legislature. It is issued for raising revenue or for mobilizing resources during an emergency.

regarding the law, the 15th amendment was specifically designed thinking in the rights of black free men.

even though ratified on february 3, 1870, the promise of the 15th amendment would not be fully applied for a long time.poll taxes and literacy tests would allow southern states disenfranchise african americans. only in 1965 the voting rights for african americans would be actually able to vote in the south.

in 1965, president johnson signed the voting rights act, which aimed to overcome legal barriers that prevented african americans from voting as it was guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the u.s. constitution.

because their parents smoke while in labor