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Southern state legislatures employed literacy tests as part of the voter registration process starting in the late 19th century. Literacy tests, along with poll taxes, residency and property restrictions, and extra-legal activities (violence and intimidation) were all used to deny suffrage to African Americans.
Harmony Will
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∙ 11y agoThe literacy test was used to prevent African American from voting because they were fixed so that they would fail. The African Americans also did not have a very good education, most couldn't read or write so they were bound to fail.
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∙ 13y agoMost did not have good educations because of segregated schools, so many could not read very well.
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∙ 12y agomost african americans had not learned to read while they were slaves.
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What is the difference between the literacy tests given to the African Americans compared to those given to white?
African Americans and Whites are given exactly the same literacy tests.
What did southerner whites use to disenfranchise African Americans after the civil war?
poll taxes and literacy tests
What did some southern states require from African Americans?
Poll taxes and literacy tests
The purpose of the literacy tests that were used in the southern states after 1870 was to?
To discurage african Americans from voting
What were the Jim Crow literacy testes?
They were tests to deny African Americans and poor whites the right to vote
What is the difference between the literacy tests given to the African Americans compared to those given to white?
African Americans and Whites are given exactly the same literacy tests.
What did southerner whites use to disenfranchise African Americans after the civil war?
poll taxes and literacy tests
How did conservative democrats disenfranchise African Americans?
Poll taxes and literacy tests
Why were southerners successful in literacy tests to keep African Americans from voting?
Most African Americans had not learned to read while they were slaves
What did some southern states require from African Americans?
Poll taxes and literacy tests
Why were southerners successful in using literacy tests to keep African Americans from voting?
Most African Americans had not learned to read while they were slaves.
Literacy Tests?
This refers to state government practices of administering tests to prospective voters purportedly to test their literacy in order to vote. In practice, these tests were intended to disenfranchise African-Americans.
How were literacy tests discriminatory towards African Americans?
How your going to have a answer.com if you dont have answers ugh
The purpose of the literacy tests that were used in the southern states after 1870 was to?
To discurage african Americans from voting
What did the poll tax for literacy tests do?
Stopped African Americans from being able to register to vote.
What did southern whites use to disenfranchise African Americans after the civil?
poll taxes and literacy tests
What was the effect of the use of literacy tests throughout the South after the US Civil War?
The literacy test was intended to prevent African Americans from voting.
