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To limit voting by African Americans
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What happens if a person couldn't pass a literacy test?
If you are referring to the literacy test that the south gave to African American voters during the reconstruction period after the civil war, they were given a literacy test and, if they failed, they were denied their right to vote. Mind you, the tests were very, very difficult.
Why did voters have to pass a literacy test?
The literacy test basically says: Prove that you can speak English. If someone can't then we will be letting those who cannot communicate with us into our country
How did the literacy test operate to disenfranchise black voters?
typically they were illiterate because they didn't have access to education and were unable to pass a literacy test. ^^^^ sometimes the case, but the people who gave the test made the standerd for the literacy tests incredibly high for blacks. it made it nearly impossible for the blacks to vote.
The Lemon test involves what part of the Constitution?
The Establishment clause
What tactics did southern states employ to disenfranchise black voters?
They made African Americans pass a literacy test..
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
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 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.
The literacy test the poll tax and the grandfather clause were all aimed at?
limit the number of african americans qualified to vote
Why did southern state develop poll taxes literacy test and grandfather clauses?
to limit african americans right to vote
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.
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.
Which of the following kept freed slaves from voting in the southa. Poll taxB.CarpetbaggersC.ScalawagsD. Literacy test?
Literacy Test cuz they couldnt read
How did the Southerners try to keep blacks from voting?
The African Americans were kept from voting with poll taxes, which meant they had to pay to vote and literacy tests where if they failed them they couldn't vote, and since many at the time were illiterate and poor they couldn't vote. Also fear played a factor the Ku Klux Klan would threaten them to keep them away from the polls.
What are the different methods disenfranchisement used against African Americans?
—First they created the Poll Tax: a tax that had to be paid before one could vote —It wasn't generally a high tax, but for poor sharecropping families it often proved too expensive —Bourbons also created Literacy Tests: A test to prove literacy and understanding of the state constitution —African Americans were discriminated against by being forced to take a much harder Literacy test than white voters —Finally, the Bourbons passed the "Grandfather Clause" which allowed southern whites to be exempt from the Poll tax or Literacy Test —It stated that if a person's father or grandfather had voted in the past, then that person could vote —This discriminated against African Americans because their fathers and grandfathers could not vote, but white voters had been voting in America for centuries
