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I'm not sure about the KKK part but the purpose of poll tax and literacy test were restrictions to voting. A poll tax was a fee you had to pay to vote and poor people could not afford it. The literacy test made you read and explain a section of the Constitution, and most poor people did not get any education so they would not pass it. Sorry i don't know about the actions of the KKK.
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After the civil war the poll tax literacy test and grandfather clause were used to ensure?
That black people couldn't vote.
What was the purpose of literacy test and poll taxes?
The intent was to keep poor and uneducated people, especially Negroes in the South, from voting.
The literacy test the poll tax and the grandfather clause were all aimed at?
limit the number of african americans qualified to vote
What is a poll tax?
discriminatory
What tax prevented poor whites from voting?
The poll tax. Counties get most of their money by taxing the land, property taxes, based on its valuation. But this tax hits the poor only indirectly. Usually the poor own little land, being tenant farmers or share-croppers. Its the land owner who gets the tax bill. So the poll tax is a tax on polls, or heads. It was not a huge amount, but the poor could not spare even that small sum. The popll tax is a tax on persons, which raises some money for the county, but another "virtue" is that non-payment of the poll tax could be used to prevent the delinquent taxpayer from voting. After the Civil War this strategy was also applied against blacks, most of whom were poor and owned no land.
