Deny African Americans the right to vote.
Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses were discriminatory practices used primarily in the Southern United States to disenfranchise African American voters after the Reconstruction era. Poll taxes required individuals to pay a fee to vote, which many African Americans could not afford. Literacy tests were often unfairly administered, targeting Black voters with complex questions designed to confuse and disqualify them. Grandfather clauses allowed individuals to bypass these restrictions only if their ancestors had voted before the Civil War, effectively excluding descendants of enslaved people from voting.
All the southern states
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.
The 24th Amendment, ratified in 1964, eliminated the use of poll taxes in federal elections. Poll taxes were primarily used to disenfranchise poor individuals, particularly African Americans and poor white voters, in southern states. By removing this financial barrier, the amendment aimed to promote greater electoral participation and equality in the democratic process.
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Five instruments used historically to suppress voting among racial minorities include literacy tests, poll taxes, grandfather clauses, intimidation tactics, and gerrymandering. These methods were used to disenfranchise minority voters and limit their political power.
The KKK used poll taxes, grandfather clauses, literacy tests, and scare tactics to set back progress.
The whites used literacy tests and grandfather tests as well as poll taxes to discourage black voters.
The whites used literacy tests and grandfather tests as well as poll taxes to discourage black voters.
Literacy tests were used to prevent African-Americans from voting, grandfather clauses were enacted into law which only allowed someone to vote if their grandfather could vote, and states enacted poll taxes which did not allow people, usually black or poor whites, to vote if they could not pay the tax.
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This was called a poll tax and has not been around for decades. Historically, poll taxes have been methods used to keep poorer people from voting.
To prevent blacks form voting