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In some states these kept low-income African Americans from voting?
Poll taxes.
This kept many African America from voting even after the fifteenth amendment?
Even after the 15th Amendment many African Americans were kept from voting by intimidation. Whites used violence and fear of threats to control African Americans from new freedoms. Most African Americans were uneducated requiring honest assistance from people which left them victims sometimes to people who intended to control them.
What was poll taxes based on?
They were instituted to stop African Americans from voting. They made very little income so a high poll tax stopped them from voting because they couldn't afford it. If they paid the tax they were given a reading test of reading a section of the constitution. Since it was against the law to teach a slave to read many African Americans couldn't read and the lack of a good educational system kept African American children from passing when they were ready to vote.
What was the poll taxes based on?
They were instituted to stop African Americans from voting. They made very little income so a high poll tax stopped them from voting because they couldn't afford it. If they paid the tax they were given a reading test of reading a section of the constitution. Since it was against the law to teach a slave to read many African Americans couldn't read and the lack of a good educational system kept African American children from passing when they were ready to vote.
What were what ways did the African Americans gain power in the south?
While the Fifteenth Amendment ensured that African-Americans could not be denied the right to vote simply because they were African-American, the southern states came up with various ways to disenfranchise blacks.
What did the the voting rights act accomplish?
forty years ago, president Lyndon Johnson vowed to end the Jim crow machinery that kept African Americans away from the polls. join neal coman and guests for stories of the voting rights act.
How did segregated schools provide a safe environment for African American students?
It kept them away from the Americans who didn't like African Americans.
What kept confederate from enlisting African Americans?
There was no way the slave owners wanted a group of African Americans running around with guns!
How did southerners keep African Americans from political power?
They white southerners kept African Americans from political power is by creating Black codes
What did the poll tax do?
Limit voting rights....and also to dissuade African Americans from voting.The payment of which is sometimes a prerequisite to exercise the right of suffrage.
Which was not a means by which Mexican Americans voting strength was kept low?
The destruction of the library at Alexandria was not a means of doing so.
How did southern states keep African American from gaining political power?
The Southern states kept African Americans from gaining political power by denying them an education. They also passed laws to keep them down. They were not allowed to own property and most of them could not read or write.
