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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
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What was the purpose of poll taxes and literacy tests in the south during Reconstruction?
Tools to disfranchise African Americans
What efforts were made to protect black rights during reconstruction?
the grandfather clauses and literacy tests and poll taxes.
The establishment of literacy tests in Mississippi during the post-Reconstruction years was an attempt to drive which group out of politics?
African Americans
What did southern whites use to disenfranchise African American during reconstruction?
Poll taxes and literacy tests
What is a grandfather clause and What is its purpose in literacy tests?
What is a grandfather clause, and what was its purpose
What is a grandfather clause and what was it purpose in literacy tests?
What is a grandfather clause, and what was its purpose
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.
The purpose of the literacy tests that were used in the southern states after 1870 was to?
To discurage african Americans from voting
What is disfranchise?
Franchisement during the reconstruction era was the right to suffrage (vote). The whites in the south tried to get around this any way possible. These ways were called the disfranchisement. Ways could be things such as the Poll Taxes and literacy tests.
At the end of the reconstruction southern whites disenfranchised African Americans with?
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.
When were the literacy test abolished?
Literacy tests were abolished officially in 1965.
What was the purpose of these literacy tests?
In the late 19 century, the United States government allowed officials at voting placed to administer literacy tests, primarily to people of color, in order to vote. This was done to keep many black people and some poorer white people from voting.
