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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.
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∙ 11y agoIt was to discourage African Americans 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.
What was the purpose of literacy test and poll taxes?
The intent was to keep poor and uneducated people, especially Negroes in the South, from voting.
The literacy test the poll tax and the grandfather clause were all aimed at?
limit the number of african americans qualified to vote
What is a poll tax?
discriminatory
What tax prevented poor whites from voting?
The poll tax. Counties get most of their money by taxing the land, property taxes, based on its valuation. But this tax hits the poor only indirectly. Usually the poor own little land, being tenant farmers or share-croppers. Its the land owner who gets the tax bill. So the poll tax is a tax on polls, or heads. It was not a huge amount, but the poor could not spare even that small sum. The popll tax is a tax on persons, which raises some money for the county, but another "virtue" is that non-payment of the poll tax could be used to prevent the delinquent taxpayer from voting. After the Civil War this strategy was also applied against blacks, most of whom were poor and owned no land.
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 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 is literacy tax and poll tax?
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
What two things did Southern legislators pass that made it extremely difficult for blacks to vote after Reconstruction?
* A voters poll tax* a required literacy test
What was the purpose of a poll tax?
A poll tax was required to be paid before a citizen could vote.
What was the purpose of the poll tax?
A poll tax was required to be paid before a citizen could vote.
What president outlawed poll tax and literacy tests for blacks?
President Johnson
What was the purpose of literacy test and poll taxes?
The intent was to keep poor and uneducated people, especially Negroes in the South, from voting.
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
