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How did a poll tax help reconstruction in the South after the Civil War?
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A poll tax is a one-time tax or fee levied on an individual which entitles him to vote. It's primary application in that way was aimed at disenfranchising poor people when election time came. And it makes perfect sense that prejudicial people would do this to prevent slaves and others who were indigent from voting. The revenue wasn't very effective in any reconstructive efforts because it didn't net that much; it wasn't designed as a "real" source of revenue. There are other applications of this idea which were designed to raise money, and as they are followed back in history, they don't relate to voting. A land holder of old may go around to each village and demand one coin from a man for himself, and a coin for each member of his family. That would be a head tax, which is somewhat the same. All these taxes are uniform in nature. Wikipedia has information, and a link is privided.
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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 did southerner whites use to disenfranchise African Americans after the civil war?
poll taxes and literacy tests
How did the twenty-fourth amendment help African Americans?
by eliminating poll taxes
What is a tax required before voting?
A poll tax is a tax required before voting. It was used primarily after the Civil War when the South taxed voters in an attempt to bar blacks and poor whites from voting.
Proponents of civil rights in the 1960s wanted to abolish the poll tax. How was this accomplished?
Very carefully.
What was the purpose of poll taxes in the south during reconstruction?
Tools to disfranchise African Americans.
What was the purpose of poll taxes and literacy tests in the south during Reconstruction?
Tools to disfranchise African Americans
President Hoover expected the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to .?
President Hubert Hoover expected the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to energize the economy and help the Stock Market poll out of its downturn. The Corporation was a huge disappointment.
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 was poll tax during Reconstruction?
The poll tax was proof that tax payments were made. Poll taxes were required in many Southern states in order to vote.
What poll taxes?
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, as they did not have much money. They were, of course, eventually abolished.
What are poll taxes?
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, as they did not have much money. They were, of course, eventually abolished.
What were the voting restrictions for African Americans during the civil war?
There were many examples of disenfranchisement and restrictions placed on African-Americans after the Reconstruction. These included poll taxes, educational requirements, grandfather clauses, the Eight Box Law in South Carolina, property requirements, Jim Crow laws, and White Primaries.
What did it mean for a state to disenfranchise in the south after the civil war?
The "franchise" is the right to vote; to "disenfranchise" means to deny someone the right to vote. In the south after the war, during reconstruction, white men generally were not allowed to vote, and the freed slaves were allowed to vote. As soon as reconstruction was over whites regained political power and though various laws (poll taxes, literacy tests) again disenfranchised the blacks. (No women could vote until 1920).
A sum of money that had to be paid by the voter at the timehe or she cast a ballot?
It's free. A Canadian does not have to pay for voting in any type of election.
What is disfranchise?
Franchisement during the reconstruction era was the right to suffrage (vote). The whites in the south tried to get around this any way possible. These ways were called the disfranchisement. Ways could be things such as the Poll Taxes and literacy tests.
What efforts were made to protect black rights during reconstruction?
the grandfather clauses and literacy tests and poll taxes.
