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.
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African Americans remained disenfranchised
Southern states passed racist Jim Crow Laws that limited African American freedoms and restricted many of the rights they had received under Reconstruction.
congress overturned johnsons vetoes on major reconstruction legislation
congress overturned johnsons vetoes on major reconstruction legislation
Mississippi and South Carolina
No. They passed them to separate whites from blacks and keep African-Americans in an inferior social and economic position.
Mississippi and South Carolina
When African Americans were first guaranteed the right to vote during Reconstruction, most of them voted for Republican candidates. This was because Southern Whites who were against Reconstruction mostly belonged to the Democratic Party.
laws such as poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses, which effectively prevented African Americans from voting. This disenfranchisement was a way for southern whites to maintain their power and control over political and social institutions in the post-reconstruction era.
They provided protections for African Americans (apex)
After reconstruction, Jim Crow laws were passed. These laws made it difficult for African-Americans to move upward.