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If you wanted to vote, you had to be able to read and write.

This restriction was to discourage any ethnic group (other that white) from voting, because many (if not all) were not educated.


But the literacy requirement was a double-edged sword; not many white men could read or write also.

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What is a literacy requirement for voting and how was it use to deny suffrage to certain groups?

If you wanted to vote, you had to be able to read and write.This restriction was to discourage any ethnic group (other that white) from voting, because many (if not all) were not educated.But the literacy requirement was a double-edged sword; not many white men could read or write also.


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