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How did poll taxes restrict voting rights?
The blacks couldn't afford the tax
How did poll taxes prevent blacks from voting?
Blacks could generally not afford the tax. They were underpayed and overworked, causing them to have very little money to even live. They could not afford to vote.
What was prohibited under the Twenty-fourth Amendment?
The 24th amendment prohibited poll taxes
Which amendment made poll taxes illegal?
The Twenty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution made poll taxes illegal. =)
Which of the following did Southern whites use to disfranchise African Americans after the Civil War?
The implementation of poll taxes was used to legally prevent poor blacks and quite often poor whites from voting. The tax was to be paid as a prerequisite to casting a ballot. This was later made unconstitutional by the 24th amendment. poll taxes and literacy tests.
What were literacy tests and poll taxes used to keep blacks from?
voting
What kind of tax prevented many blacks from voting?
Poll taxes
Late 1800s poll taxes were used to?
To prevent blacks form voting
How did poll taxes restrict voting rights?
The blacks couldn't afford the tax
What were poll taxes?
Poll taxes were taxes that had to be paid by registered voters. The courts decided it was illegal as the poorer people could not afford it and this prevented them from voting. Blacks could generally not afford the tax.
What was the impact of literacy test and poll taxes in Georgia?
They kept blacks and poor whites from voting
What requirement kept blacks from voting?
They had to pay poll taxes and the Grandfather Clause restricted many from voting.
How did the twenty-fourth amendment expand voting right?
The "poll tax" is now considered unconstitutional.
Blacks in the south were not totally disfranchised or segregated until?
Until states enacted literacy test and poll taxes in the 1890s.
How did the ku klux klans use of terror interfere with elections in the south?
they threatened to kill blacks and used poll taxes
How did poll taxes prevent blacks from voting?
Blacks could generally not afford the tax. They were underpayed and overworked, causing them to have very little money to even live. They could not afford to vote.
Which of the following did southern whites used to disenfranchise african Americans after the civil war?
They authorized Jim Crow Laws that limited segregated freedmen (former slaves) from whites. Also, the made black codes that made blacks act a certain way. They made poll taxes and literacy test to stop blacks from voting.
