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∙ 6y agoPoll Tax-tax required before a person can vote!
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What is the purpose of a poll tax and literacy test?
I'm not sure about the KKK part but the purpose of poll tax and literacy test were restrictions to voting. A poll tax was a fee you had to pay to vote and poor people could not afford it. The literacy test made you read and explain a section of the Constitution, and most poor people did not get any education so they would not pass it. Sorry i don't know about the actions of the KKK.
What tax prevented poor whites from voting?
The poll tax. Counties get most of their money by taxing the land, property taxes, based on its valuation. But this tax hits the poor only indirectly. Usually the poor own little land, being tenant farmers or share-croppers. Its the land owner who gets the tax bill. So the poll tax is a tax on polls, or heads. It was not a huge amount, but the poor could not spare even that small sum. The popll tax is a tax on persons, which raises some money for the county, but another "virtue" is that non-payment of the poll tax could be used to prevent the delinquent taxpayer from voting. After the Civil War this strategy was also applied against blacks, most of whom were poor and owned no land.
After the civil war the poll tax literacy test and grandfather clause were used to ensure?
That black people couldn't vote.
The literacy test the poll tax and the grandfather clause were all aimed at?
limit the number of african americans qualified to vote
What was the purpose of literacy test and poll taxes?
The intent was to keep poor and uneducated people, especially Negroes in the South, from voting.
What tax was outlawed by the 24th amendment?
the Poll tax
What is a tax on voters?
In the constitution, Tax on voters is called Poll tax
What kind of tax is a poll tax?
A Poll tax is a direct tax. A poll tax, head tax, or capitation is a tax of a uniform, fixed amount per individual (as opposed to a percentage of income).
What term refers to a tax that people have to pay before being allowed to vote?
A fixed tax to be paid before a person could vote was and is called a poll tax. Because it is a fixed amount per person, it could also be called a Head Tax.
What is poll tax?
The poll tax, a capital tax levied equally on every adult in the community.
Who made poll tax?
Benjamin Franklin was the first who had started the poll tax
When did Poll Tax Riots happen?
Poll Tax Riots happened in 1990.
What was poll tax during Reconstruction?
The poll tax was proof that tax payments were made. Poll taxes were required in many Southern states in order to vote.
How does poll tax work?
Poll tax works by the PMs and MPs. They decide how much money the poll tax is, in terms of working and doing other jobs.
A poll tax is tax on?
A poll tax was used to give people the ability to vote. The poll tax is no longer used in the U.S. The 24th Amendment ended it on January 23, 1964.
What does End of poll tax mean?
When the time for ending the poll tax comes for the year.
What did the poll tax work against?
the poll tax worked against black code
