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The intent was to keep poor and uneducated people, especially Negroes in the South, from voting.
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FranThe intent was to keep poor and uneducated people, especially Negroes in the South, from voting.
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The most direct effect of poll taxes and literacy test on African American West?
The most direct effect of poll taxes and literacy tests on African Americans was to prevent them from voting. The Supreme Court found that poll taxes violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
Blacks in the south were not totally disfranchised or segregated until?
Until states enacted literacy test and poll taxes in the 1890s.
What is the purpose of a poll tax and literacy test?
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.
After the civil war the poll tax literacy test and grandfather clause were used to ensure?
That black people couldn't vote.
The literacy test the poll tax and the grandfather clause were all aimed at?
limit the number of african americans qualified to vote
