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How did the literacy test operate to disenfranchise black voters?
typically they were illiterate because they didn't have access to education and were unable to pass a literacy test. ^^^^ sometimes the case, but the people who gave the test made the standerd for the literacy tests incredibly high for blacks. it made it nearly impossible for the blacks to vote.
What two things did Southern legislators pass that made it extremely difficult for blacks to vote after Reconstruction?
* A voters poll tax* a required literacy test
How were the African Americans disenfranchised in the south?
they disfranshised blacks by: making them pay to vote, pass a literacy test, and understand the state constitution.
What happens if a person couldn't pass a literacy test?
If you are referring to the literacy test that the south gave to African American voters during the reconstruction period after the civil war, they were given a literacy test and, if they failed, they were denied their right to vote. Mind you, the tests were very, very difficult.
When blacks were given the right to vote did their vote count as a fraction of a vote?
Yes, Congress counted blacks as 1 third of a person
What exam that people had to pass in order to vote?
You have to take a literacy test to be in order to vote
What was the purpose of literacy tests during reconstruction?
it was because blacks weren't educated and remember the south didn't want to come back to the union because they were racists against blacks. the south wanted to find ways so that the blacks couldn't vote so they made up the literacy test which made the blacks had to take a test and had to pass to become citizens and have the right to vote. the south wanted to make things difficult for them and because the blacks weren't educated they couldn't read so that was the purpose i hoped it helped me and my class were actually working on reconstrction this week so i remembered most of what we had to study
For many years some states required that a person pass a literacy tests before they could register to vote what was the purpose of these literacy test?
From the 1890s to the 1960s the United States government administered literacy tests to immigrants, freed blacks, and poor whites. The practice was put in place to weed out those deemed illiterate and therefore ineligible to vote.
How did the Jim crow laws affect African Americans ability to voting rights?
Blacks could vote if 1. They could read (they had to pass a literacy test) 2. Their grandfather was not a slave (this limited the number of freedmen that could vote)
Requiring this was unfair to people who wished to register to vote?
Literacy Test (NovaNET)
How did poll tax and literacy test keep African American from voting?
they had to pay to vote
When was the polltax brought into effect?
Around the time of the XIV, XV, and XVI Amendments. White southerners created the tax to not let blacks vote without paying a certain "tax" They also did literacy tests and anything that didn't let blacks vote.
