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Why did the poll tax appear?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

The poll tax was introduced to reduce the suffrage - that means, to cut down on the number of people allowed to vote. It was actually used to reduce the number of black voters, since they were poorer than anybody else.

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13y ago

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