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The literacy test the poll tax and the grandfather clause were all aimed at?
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∙ 12y ago
limit the number of african americans qualified to vote
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∙ 12y agoAfrican Americans who were free called freedmen so that they wouldn't be able to vote
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After the civil war the poll tax literacy test and grandfather clause were used to ensure?
That black people couldn't vote.
The most direct effect of poll taxes and literacy test on African American West?
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.
What is the purpose of a poll tax and literacy test?
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.
Blacks in the south were not totally disfranchised or segregated until?
Until states enacted literacy test and poll taxes in the 1890s.
Poll taxes and literacy tests were part of what type of laws?
Jim Crow Laws
What were the poll tax literacy test and grandfather clause?
To limit voting by African Americans
How did southerners keep freedmen from voting?
by poll taxes, made them pass literacy test, and the Grandfather clause. :)
Notorious clause in southern voting laws that exempted from literacy test and poll taxes anyone whose ancestors had voted in1860 thereby excluding blacks?
the grandfather clause
What affected voter turnout among African American citizens in 1960s?
Poll taxes, literacy tests, and the grandfather clause.
After the civil war the poll tax literacy test and grandfather clause were used to ensure?
That black people couldn't vote.
What do these topics all have in common Grandfather Clause Poll Tax Literacy Test White Primary?
To limit voting by African Americans
How did southerners keep former slaves from voting?
they made the poll tax law, literacy lawand the grandfather clause to prevent MOST freed black men from voting
How did the south keep African-Americans from voting?
they made the poll tax law, literacy lawand the grandfather clause to prevent MOST freed black men from voting
Poll taxes grandfather clause's and literacy tests were attempts by Southern white legislators to?
deprive African Americans of their legal right basically a hidden form of slavery
What do poll taxes literacy taxes and grandfather clause have in common?
They were all different laws introduced to continue opressing the black people, not letting them vote, even though officially there was equality.
What voting restrictions were imposed upon blacks?
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.
What 3 ways African Americans were prevented 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.
