limit the number of african americans qualified to vote
African Americans who were free called freedmen so that they wouldn't be able to vote
That black people couldn't vote.
The most direct effect of poll taxes and literacy tests on African Americans was to prevent them from voting. The Supreme Court found that poll taxes violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
I'm not sure about the KKK part but the purpose of poll tax and literacy test were restrictions to voting. A poll tax was a fee you had to pay to vote and poor people could not afford it. The literacy test made you read and explain a section of the Constitution, and most poor people did not get any education so they would not pass it. Sorry i don't know about the actions of the KKK.
Until states enacted literacy test and poll taxes in the 1890s.
Jim Crow Laws
To limit voting by African Americans
by poll taxes, made them pass literacy test, and the Grandfather clause. :)
the grandfather clause
That black people couldn't vote.
Poll taxes, literacy tests, and the grandfather clause.
To limit voting by African Americans
they made the poll tax law, literacy lawand the grandfather clause to prevent MOST freed black men from voting
they made the poll tax law, literacy lawand the grandfather clause to prevent MOST freed black men from voting
deprive African Americans of their legal right basically a hidden form of slavery
They were all different laws introduced to continue opressing the black people, not letting them vote, even though officially there was equality.
They had to pay poll tax or own property, pass a literacy test, and there was a grandfather clause which kept anyone without an ancestor who had previously voted from voting.
There were no such laws. Blacks were still slaves in 1800. We were not recognized as people under the Constitution and citizenship/voting rights are reserved to people. Since we had no rights, there was no need for laws forbidding us the right to vote. It was understood that we had no legal rights.