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A poll tax was an amount of money that a person was forced to pay in order to vote. After the Civil War in the South, poll tax laws were created in order to prevent freed slaves from voting
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What tax was outlawed by the 24th amendment?
the Poll tax
What did southerner whites use to disenfranchise African Americans after the civil war?
poll taxes and literacy tests
What is poll tax?
The poll tax, a capital tax levied equally on every adult in the community.
What tactics were used to deny basic civil rights to African-Americans from 1895 into the 20Th century?
Poll tax, literacy test,terrorism,and Jim Crow Laws
What did the poll tax work against?
the poll tax worked against black code
What president outlawed poll tax and literacy tests for blacks?
President Johnson
How did poll tax and literacy test keep African American from voting?
they had to pay to vote
What were the poll tax literacy test and grandfather clause?
To limit voting by African Americans
What did the poll tax for literacy tests do?
Stopped African Americans from being able to register to vote.
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.
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
What was the poll tax and literacy test?
The poll tax and the literacy tests were methods used to prevent certain classes of people from voting.The poll tax, aimed at lower socioeconomic classes, was a tax one had to pay in order to vote.The literacy test, generally implemented against African Americans pre Civil Rights movement, was a test whose alleged purpose was to determine that a voter could read the ballot; however many times authorities would give prospective voters foreign reading materials in order to ensure they weren't allowed to vote.
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
What tax was outlawed by the 24th amendment?
the Poll tax
What is a tax on voters?
In the constitution, Tax on voters is called Poll tax
What did Jim Crow laws poll taxes and literacy tests have in common?
Jim Crow laws segregated, poll tax and literacy tests prevented most freed slaves from voting, because one of the amendments said voting can not be prevented because of skin color, it was too specific.
