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The poll tax was proof that tax payments were made. Poll taxes were required in many Southern states in order to vote.
The federal government controlled the Confederate states during Reconstruction.
In 1870 President Hays made a deal to remove federal troops from the southern states. This changed reconstruction and allowed the south to begin the Jim Crow laws that would create segregation and discrimination for another 100 years. Had reconstruction been allowed to continue the southern states may have not developed as they did, but we will never know.