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Poll taxes were not meant to keep the poor from voting, although that was a unintended consequence. Poll taxes were used to keep African-Americans from voting. What made the practice especially egregious was the fact that many Southern states passed laws that exempted most whites from paying the poll tax.
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Grandfather clauses and poll taxes were used to?
Deny African Americans the right to vote.
What was the purpose of the poll taxes in the south?
Tools to disfranchise African Americans.
Is it true that both literacy tests and poll taxes were instituted to deny certain groups from voting?
Yes, both were instituted to deny certain groups the right to vote.
Why did poll taxes hurt low income African-Americans?
A poll tax was a fee required to vote. A person who who could not or did not want to pay the fee could not vote. Poll taxes discouraged ex-slaves from voting.
The use of poll taxes affected which of the fooling groups?
Poor whites and African Americans
What state laws unfairly used economic status to deny African Americans their right to vote?
Poll Taxes
Grandfather clauses and poll taxes were used to?
Deny African Americans the right to vote.
States could not use poll taxes to deny a person the right to vote according to which amendment?
The 24th Amendment stated poll taxes could not be used to deny a person the right to vote.
How did the twenty-fourth amendment help African Americans?
by eliminating poll taxes
How did the 24th Amendment affect African American voting rights?
Amendment 24 of the U.S. Constitution provided more opportunity for African - Americans to vote by barring Poll Taxes, a tax that must be paid by anyone wishing to cast a vote.
The 24th amendment helped African Americans to vote by?
The twenty-fourth amendment helped African Americans to vote by eliminating poll taxes.
What did southerner whites use to disenfranchise African Americans after the civil war?
poll taxes and literacy tests
How did poll tax effect African Americans?
With the government eliminating poll taxes, it allowed many more to be able to vote.
What kept low income African Americans from voting?
poll taxes
What was the purpose of the poll taxes in the south?
Tools to disfranchise African Americans.
How did the 24th amendment help African Americans?
by eliminating poll taxes
Poll taxes were designed to?
prevent poor african americans from voting
