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A poll tax was a fee that individuals were required to pay in order to vote. This practice was often used in the United States, particularly in Southern states, as a means to disenfranchise poor and minority voters, especially African Americans. Poll taxes effectively limited access to the electoral process, as many individuals could not afford to pay the tax. The practice was eventually deemed unconstitutional by the 24th Amendment in 1964, which prohibited poll taxes in federal elections.
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What was the tax meant to keep some people from voting?
The poll tax. (:
What kind of tax did many states create in order to keep blacks from voting?
poll tax
What kind of tax is a pole tax?
I think you mean a "poll" tax. "Poll" is a term often used to refer to voting. A poll tax would be a tax you paid for the privilege of voting. Poll taxes were often used in US history to keep the poor and minorities from voting. They are now illegal in the United States.
How did poll tax and literacy test keep African American from voting?
they had to pay to vote
A fee that was charged to people in order to vote to keep minorites from voting is called?
Poll Tax
A poll tax is a tax on?
In U.S. practice, a poll tax was a tax on the act of voting in an election and had to be paid before a citizen could cast a ballot.
What is the cause of poll tax?
The cause of the poll tax was to keep poor and minority people from voting. The laws were eliminated by the 15th Amendment to the Constitution.
How did poll taxes deny poor Americans the opportunity to vote?
Poll taxes were not meant to keep the poor from voting, although that was a unintended consequence. Poll taxes were used to keep African-Americans from voting. What made the practice especially egregious was the fact that many Southern states passed laws that exempted most whites from paying the poll tax.
Denies state governments the power to keep citizens from voting by charging a poll tax?
24 I think
How did the south keep African-Americans from voting?
they made the poll tax law, literacy lawand the grandfather clause to prevent MOST freed black men from voting
What was a way keep freedmen from voting because they had little money?
This was called the "Poll Tax".
Tax required before voting?
poll tax
