They thought if they gave slaves weapons they would rebel. Actually, near the end of the Civil War, almost a century later, plantation owners decided they might have to fill in the ranks in the Confederate Army with slaves because they ran out of white men to fill in the ranks.
ANSWER:The Southern states denied African-Americans the right to vote.
They made African Americans pass a test to prove they could read and write
Most African Americans didn't know.
Poll taxes and literacy tests
To discurage african Americans from voting
ANSWER:The Southern states denied African-Americans the right to vote.
they made african americans pass a test first to see if they can read and write
They made African Americans pass a test to prove they could read and write
Most African Americans didn't know.
Poll taxes and literacy tests
no he supported segragation in the southern states
they denied them equal rights, they thought of them as useless.
To discurage african Americans from voting
The southern half of the country kept the African-Americans as slaves. The northern states never engaged in that kind of behavior.
The Southern states kept African Americans from gaining political power by denying them an education. They also passed laws to keep them down. They were not allowed to own property and most of them could not read or write.
Southern states sent men into the northern states to bring back ANY African Americans.
In 1860, the majority of African Americans in the United States were enslaved. Slavery was legal in many Southern states, and the vast majority of African Americans in those states were held in bondage.