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In order for freedmen to vote, they must pay poll taxes, take a literacy test and must approve of the grandfather clause. Some African Americans could pay the poll taxes, and many can take and pass literacy tests due to the fact that most were born in the US. However, there was a loophole that made it impossible for African Americans to vote. The grandfather clause is what made it impossible. This stated that in order for you to vote, your grandfather must have participated in the election of 1860. Since African Americans were still slaves during this time period, they could not vote. In which those present African Americans could not vote either.

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