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How did grandfather clause restrict the voting rights of African Americans?
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∙ 13y ago
In order for freedmen to vote, they must pay poll taxes, take a literacy test and must approve of the grandfather clause. Some African Americans could pay the poll taxes, and many can take and pass literacy tests due to the fact that most were born in the US. However, there was a loophole that made it impossible for African Americans to vote. The grandfather clause is what made it impossible. This stated that in order for you to vote, your grandfather must have participated in the election of 1860. Since African Americans were still slaves during this time period, they could not vote. In which those present African Americans could not vote either.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoThey couldn't vote if their grandfather hadn't voted because grandfathers are the keys to freedom. As the old wives tale of the three little grandpas once said: when grandpa stands beside his son, boy knows that freedom is won!
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∙ 6y agoVery simple they didn’t want African Americans to vote. Since they weren’t taught to read they used literacy tests and because they didn’t have much money they added a high poll tax just to insure they wouldn’t be able to vote.
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∙ 12y agoThey couldn't vote if thier grandfather hadn't voted.
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∙ 11y agoThey were attempts to limit freedoms with the African Americans had recently won.
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What did grandfather clause mean to African Americans who wanted to vote?
They could not vote if their grandfather had not been allowed to vote.
Why did southern state governments create poll taxes literacy test and grandfather clauses?
To Women African-American’s right to vote
Laws that exempted men from voting restrictions?
grandfather clause
What were southern states attempting to do by passing the grandfather clause?
Disfranchise it
What amendment guaranteed us citizenship to African-Americans?
the Civil Rights Act of 1866
What are grandfather clause example?
Ways to prevent african Americans from voting
What did grandfather clause mean to African Americans who wanted to vote?
They could not vote if their grandfather had not been allowed to vote.
What were the poll tax literacy test and grandfather clause?
To limit voting by African Americans
In what region did the grandfather clause exist?
The Grandfather Clause was a clause that was instituted by several southern states in the United States of America during the Reconstruction, making it virtually impossible for African Americans to vote. The seven states that enacted the Grandfather Clause or some variation were Louisiana, North Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, Oklahoma, and Virginia.
What do these topics all have in common Grandfather Clause Poll Tax Literacy Test White Primary?
To limit voting by African Americans
The literacy test the poll tax and the grandfather clause were all aimed at?
limit the number of african americans qualified to vote
What did grandfather clause mean to African American who wanted to vote?
They could not vote if their grandfather had not been allowed to vote.
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 was the effect of the grandfather clause?
how did the grandfather clause effect blacks after the civil war
What are 5 laws African Americans had to follow Jim crows laws?
grandfather clause, separation in schools, sit in the back of the bus, pass "logic" tests in order to vote, no intermarriage
What is a grandfather clause and what was it purpose in literacy tests?
What is a grandfather clause, and what was its purpose
