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Southern state legislatures employed literacy tests as part of the voter registration process starting in the late 19th century. Literacy tests, along with poll taxes, residency and property restrictions, and extra-legal activities (violence and intimidation) were all used to deny suffrage to African Americans.
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What is the difference between the literacy tests given to the African Americans compared to those given to white?
African Americans and Whites are given exactly the same literacy tests.
What did southerner whites use to disenfranchise African Americans after the civil war?
poll taxes and literacy tests
What did some southern states require from African Americans?
Poll taxes and literacy tests
The purpose of the literacy tests that were used in the southern states after 1870 was to?
To discurage african Americans from voting
What were the Jim Crow literacy testes?
They were tests to deny African Americans and poor whites the right to vote
What is the difference between the literacy tests given to the African Americans compared to those given to white?
African Americans and Whites are given exactly the same literacy tests.
What did southerner whites use to disenfranchise African Americans after the civil war?
poll taxes and literacy tests
How did conservative democrats disenfranchise African Americans?
Poll taxes and literacy tests
Why were southerners successful in literacy tests to keep African Americans from voting?
Most African Americans had not learned to read while they were slaves
What did some southern states require from African Americans?
Poll taxes and literacy tests
Why were southerners successful in using literacy tests to keep African Americans from voting?
Most African Americans had not learned to read while they were slaves.
Literacy Tests?
This refers to state government practices of administering tests to prospective voters purportedly to test their literacy in order to vote. In practice, these tests were intended to disenfranchise African-Americans.
The purpose of the literacy tests that were used in the southern states after 1870 was to?
To discurage african Americans from voting
How were literacy tests discriminatory towards African Americans?
How your going to have a answer.com if you dont have answers ugh
What did southern whites use to disenfranchise African Americans after the civil?
poll taxes and literacy tests
What did the poll tax for literacy tests do?
Stopped African Americans from being able to register to vote.
What was the effect of the use of literacy tests throughout the South after the US Civil War?
The literacy test was intended to prevent African Americans from voting.
