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They limited the number of people to those who could afford to vote.

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The 24th amendment helped African Americans to vote by?

The twenty-fourth amendment helped African Americans to vote by eliminating poll taxes.


How did poll tax effect African Americans?

With the government eliminating poll taxes, it allowed many more to be able to vote.


How did the southern states prohibit African Americans from voting after Reconstruction ended?

they created poll taxes and literacy tests to stop African Americans from voting; the taxes succeeded because the newly freed African Americans had been forbidden to read as slaves, and had little, or no money to vote with.


What kept low income African Americans from voting?

poll taxes


Poll taxes were designed to?

prevent poor african americans from voting


How did the 24th amendment help African Americans?

by eliminating poll taxes


What was the purpose of the poll taxes in the south?

Tools to disfranchise African Americans.


How did the twenty-fourth amendment help African Americans?

by eliminating poll taxes


The use of poll taxes affected what?

Poor whites and African Americans. -Apex


How did conservative democrats disenfranchise African Americans?

Poll taxes and literacy tests


What did unfair poll taxes and tests keep African Americans from doing?

Voting


Which group did poll taxes affect?

Poll taxes primarily affected African Americans in the southern United States during the Jim Crow era. These taxes were used as a means to disenfranchise and prevent African Americans from voting by requiring them to pay a fee in order to cast their vote.