The prospective voter had to prove he could read and write.
Literacy rates continued to rise at a rapid rate.
In the "Jim Crow" (segregated) south, white people did everything they could to prevent black people from voting, even after constitutional amendments gave them that right. One common trick was a so-called "literacy test"-- it was supposed to be proof the potential voter could read and write, but only blacks were asked to take it, and it wasn't really a literacy test at all-- rather than proving a person could read, the assigned text was usually something very difficult to understand, and could thus be used to disqualify the black voter. Often the test included a reading at the PhD-level; the goal was to make sure that the vast majority of blacks (who had received an adequate but certainly not college-level education) would be unable to correctly answer questions about what they had just been asked to read.
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.
voter turnout.
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Literacy Test
Indian act or pig removal act
Voter registration stops fraud by making sure that you have the required identification to prove that you are who you say you are.
Voters Act
The poll tax and the literacy tests were methods used to prevent certain classes of people from voting.The poll tax, aimed at lower socioeconomic classes, was a tax one had to pay in order to vote.The literacy test, generally implemented against African Americans pre Civil Rights movement, was a test whose alleged purpose was to determine that a voter could read the ballot; however many times authorities would give prospective voters foreign reading materials in order to ensure they weren't allowed to vote.
a law that enables prospective voters to register when they obtain or renew a driver's license.
You need to be 18 to vote and you have to prove residency in Illinois.
Many of the so-called Jim Crow laws were examples of voter discrimination. They included poll taxes, literacy tests, and other ways to prevent minorities from voting.
Poll taxes, literacy tests, and the grandfather clause.
Literacy rates continued to rise at a rapid rate.
If you are illiterate then you are less likely to be able to read up information on who your voting for, along with the assumption that you have less education then the average voter.
A grandfather clause was added to the Louisiana constitution in 1895; Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Virginia soon added them as well. These clauses stated that any man, or his male descendants, who had voted in the State before the adoption of the 15th Amendment (1870) could become a legal voter without regard to any literacy or taxpaying qualifications.