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Which states used poll taxes?
All the southern states
How did poll taxes deny poor Americans the opportunity to vote?
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.
Many southern states used literacy tests and poll taxes to prevent black citizens from voting.?
true
True or false many southern states used literacy tests and poll taxes to prevent black citizens from voting?
True
Many southern states used literacy tests and poll taxes to prevent black citizens from voting. true false?
True
What four methods were used to deny blacks to vote from 1778-1954?
poll taxes grandfather clauses gerrymandering Jim crow laws lynching
What are the five instruments used to keep racial minorities from voting or to lessen their vote?
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.
How the Ku Klux Klan set back progress for African Americans in the south?
The KKK used poll taxes, grandfather clauses, literacy tests, and scare tactics to set back progress.
How did the white primary operate to disenfranchise black voters?
The whites used literacy tests and grandfather tests as well as poll taxes to discourage black voters.
How did White primary operate to disenfranchise black voters?
The whites used literacy tests and grandfather tests as well as poll taxes to discourage black voters.
What techniques was used to prevent blacks from voting in the South during the late 19th century?
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.
How was grandfather clauses used to keep free African Americans from voting?
salvery
Which states used poll taxes?
All the southern states
What were literacy tests and poll taxes used to keep blacks from?
voting
What technique was used to prevent black people from voting?
poll taxes
Which term refers to the tax people have to pay before being allowed to vote?
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.
Late 1800s poll taxes were used to?
To prevent blacks form voting
