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What was enacted by several states following the Civil War as a means of keeping poor blacks from voting?
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∙ 13y ago
The poll tax.
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Republicans in congress became influriated when?
Southern states enacted laws that restricted freedom for blacks.
Blacks in the south were not totally disfranchised or segregated until?
Until states enacted literacy test and poll taxes in the 1890s.
Poll Taxes?
This was enacted in Southern states had the effect of disenfranchising many blacks as well as poor whites, because payment of the tax was a prerequisite for voting.
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Why did the KKK try to keep blacks from voting?
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How did the voter requirements set by some southern states after the civil war circumvent the fifteenth amendment?
Following the Civil War, the southern legislatures, established under President Johnson's plan for reconstruction, expected the newly freed Blacks to continue to be the backbone of southern agriculture. The Blacks wanted the work but they also expected their Civil Rights. Instead, Southern Legislatures enacted Black Codes. These were laws designed to limit the rights of the Blacks and in all the Southern States, blacks were not granted the right to vote. An example of the Black Codes were laws that said a person could register to vote only if his grandfather had been registered to vote. In some states, blacks were forbidden by law to live in cities or towns. Another law allowed blacks to work only in agriculture or as domestic servants.
In the late 1850s several southern states sought to?
Did they re-slave free blacks. Did they free all slaves. force all free blacks to live in cities. send free blacks back to Africa.
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The New Zealand All Blacks beat Japan by over 125 points several decades ago.
Which of the following statements is true regarding the Union of South Africa?
Blacks and whites did not have equal rights!!! :(
