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How did white controlled governments in southern states try to keep blacks from voting?
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Federal Laws stated that all American Citizens were allowed to vote. However, some states' local laws made obstacles to prevent black people from voting. For example:
- In some areas voters were required to carry out a literacy examination; black people would be given tests that were harder than those that white people took
- Black people would be falsely told that they had not passed these literacy tests
- In some states voters had to have proof that their granddad had had the right to vote which was unlikely if he was black
- Also, there was a high chance of violence towards black people trying to vote (this was more of a social reason)
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∙ 11y agoThey enacted poll taxes
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Southern white Republicans often controlled the black vote by the influence of the?
southern white republicansANSWER:During the period of Reconstruction, Federal troops that were stationed in southern states made sure Blacks had their right to vote.White Democrats didn't have not much say in the process.However, in 1876, Reconstruction came to an end. With United States forces out of the South, and the KKK in, Blacks were frightened away from voting.For this reason, the Democrats were once again in power not only of the federal government, but, many state legislatures, governorships, and other state wide offices as well.
Republican governments in the southern states during reconstruction were unpopular because?
African Americans remained disenfranchised
Why were blacks not granted civil rights?
In order to ensure that southern states could not simply change their constitution after they were re-admitted
What enabled southern states to enact measures to disenfranchise African Americans and keep blacks and whites separated?
Answer: the removal of federal troops from the south
Why did southern governments feel justified in passing the Black Codes?
Racist Southern whites, who had just been forced by the Union to free their slaves, enacted the Black Codes to maintain the inferior status of Blacks in the South. (Although some northern states had equally racist laws on the books.) Whites were afraid that newly-freed Blacks would compete for jobs with whites, vote whites out of political offices, and own firearms. In other words, have the same rights as every free person in the rest of the united States. Thus the Black Codes were enacted to render Blacks inferior in employment, ownership of property, voting, and every other social and economic status that freed men could have.
Did classical republican governments have representatives?
How did the republican governments change legislation in southern states? How did the republican governments change legislation in southern states?
Did the Confederacy free the blacks?
No. But there were some free blacks in the southern states.
In an attempt to disenfranchise blacks southern states adopted the?
Voting prerequisites.
In an attempt to disenfranchise Blacks southern states adopted the what?
A poll tax.
In what ways did the southern states disenfranchise the blacks?
Southern states disenfranchised Blacks through the use of Jim Crow laws. They weren't allowed to use the same public facilities as Whites and they didn't have the same rights.
The white primary in southern states allowed?
blacks not to vote in democratic primaries
Who drew the color line between blacks and whites in the south?
That was drawn because the southern states were slave states and the northern states were not.
Why did Southern States pass Jim crows law?
They didn't want blacks to have any rightsTo make fun of/ discriminate against blacks.
Republicans in congress became influriated when?
Southern states enacted laws that restricted freedom for blacks.
What were the southern and northern disagreements?
states' powers over federal governments. also, it was about slavery.
What enabled southern states to enact measures to disenfranchise African Americans and keep blacks blacks and whites separated?
Answer: the removal of federal troops from the south
Southern white Republicans often controlled the black vote by the influence of the?
southern white republicansANSWER:During the period of Reconstruction, Federal troops that were stationed in southern states made sure Blacks had their right to vote.White Democrats didn't have not much say in the process.However, in 1876, Reconstruction came to an end. With United States forces out of the South, and the KKK in, Blacks were frightened away from voting.For this reason, the Democrats were once again in power not only of the federal government, but, many state legislatures, governorships, and other state wide offices as well.
