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They were used to prevent African-Americans from voting.
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Did both literacy test and poll taxes were instituted to deny certain groups from voting?
Yes, they were both instituted to keep certain groups from voting.
How were African Americans' voting rights restricted after reconstruction?
The South enacted a literacy test. This test was required of all men who wanted to vote. Since African Americans were not educated, especially during slavery, they could not read or write and therefore could not vote. When African Americans were able to have a generation that could read and write, the South then placed a poll tax before voting. A poll tax was a fee charged to people who wanted to vote. Many minorities could not afford to pay this tax as well as poor white males.
What are two things the Voting Rights Act of 1965 accomplished?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was legislation that outlawed discrimination against blacks and women. Racial segregation was also outlawed in this piece of legislation. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was a piece of legislation that outlawed discriminatory voting practices against African-Americans.
What were three tactics used in the late 1800's to restrict African Americans from voting?
A couple ways that Southern States kept African Americans from voting, despite the 15th Amendment, would be the Grandfather Clause, fixed literacy test, and poll fees/ taxes. The Grandfather Clause was a law that stated that you could not vote if your family couldn't vote prier to 1866. Poll fees/ taxes wasn't the best idea considering that African Americans weren't the only poor people in America. Some whites were also poor so that allowed them not to vote. And the fixed literacy test was a test question that everyone was asked before they could vote where and they would be fixed where African Americans couldn't vote. They would have stupid questions like "Spell it, backwards" and the correcter could either say to spell IT backwards or to spell BACKWARDS. For an African American, the answer would always be wrong because the correcter would mark it as the other one so they always got it wrong and couldn't vote. There are a couple more ways that Southerners kept African Americans from voting but these are the only couple ones that I know/ was taught.
What exempted black voters from literacy test?
if the person's grandfather was a free man and they could prove it
How did southerners keep freedmen from voting?
by poll taxes, made them pass literacy test, and the Grandfather clause. :)
What was the impact of literacy test and poll taxes in Georgia?
They kept blacks and poor whites from voting
The most direct effect of poll taxes and literacy test on African American West?
The most direct effect of poll taxes and literacy tests on African Americans was to prevent them from voting. The Supreme Court found that poll taxes violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
Many southern states used literacy test and poll taxes to prevent citizens from voting?
true
The most direct effect of taxes and rafi test on African American was to?
The most direct effect of poll taxes and literacy tests on African Americans was to prevent them from voting. Poll taxes were part of Jim Crow laws.
Why did southern state develop poll taxes literacy test and grandfather clauses?
to limit african americans right to vote
Blacks in the south were not totally disfranchised or segregated until?
Until states enacted literacy test and poll taxes in the 1890s.
Did both literacy test and poll taxes were instituted to deny certain groups from voting?
Yes, they were both instituted to keep certain groups from voting.
Which of the following kept freed slaves from voting in the southa. Poll taxB.CarpetbaggersC.ScalawagsD. Literacy test?
Literacy Test cuz they couldnt read
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.
Which of the following did southern whites used to disenfranchise african Americans after the civil war?
They authorized Jim Crow Laws that limited segregated freedmen (former slaves) from whites. Also, the made black codes that made blacks act a certain way. They made poll taxes and literacy test to stop blacks from voting.
what was the " literacy test."?
Some southern states also passed laws that required literacy tests in order to vote. Since former slaves were not given proper educations before the Civil War and many of them were unable to read, this law was another attempt to prevent African Americans from voting. The literacy tests and poll taxes were often used together.
