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What did unfair poll taxes and tests keep African Americans from doing?
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Truman asked Congress to end unfair poll taxes which were intended to discourage African-American from?
Voting.
How did the twenty-fourth amendment help African Americans?
by eliminating poll taxes
In some states these kept low-income African Americans from voting?
Poll taxes.
What did some southern states require from African Americans?
Poll taxes and literacy tests
What group was affected by the use of poll taxes?
Poor Whites and African-Americans APEX
The 24th amendment helped African Americans to vote by?
The twenty-fourth amendment helped African Americans to vote by eliminating poll taxes.
Truman asked Congress to end unfair poll taxes which were intended to discourage African-American from?
Voting.
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
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.
Poll taxes were designed to?
prevent poor african americans from voting
How did the twenty-fourth amendment help African Americans?
by eliminating poll taxes
What was the name for the Americans who chose to stay with Britain and who did not consider unfair taxes a good reason for rebellion?
They were called loyalists.
How did conservative democrats disenfranchise African Americans?
Poll taxes and literacy tests
The use of poll taxes affected what?
Poor whites and African Americans. -Apex
