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.
They could not vote if their grandfather had not been allowed to vote.
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There were no such laws. Blacks were still slaves in 1800. We were not recognized as people under the Constitution and citizenship/voting rights are reserved to people. Since we had no rights, there was no need for laws forbidding us the right to vote. It was understood that we had no legal rights.
Ways to prevent african Americans from voting
They could not vote if their grandfather had not been allowed to vote.
To limit voting by African Americans
The Grandfather Clause was a clause that was instituted by several southern states in the United States of America during the Reconstruction, making it virtually impossible for African Americans to vote. The seven states that enacted the Grandfather Clause or some variation were Louisiana, North Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, Oklahoma, and Virginia.
To limit voting by African Americans
limit the number of african americans qualified to vote
They could not vote if their grandfather had not been allowed to vote.
deprive African Americans of their legal right basically a hidden form of slavery
they made the poll tax law, literacy lawand the grandfather clause to prevent MOST freed black men from voting
how did the grandfather clause effect blacks after the civil war
What is a grandfather clause, and what was its purpose
What is a grandfather clause, and what was its purpose