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The intent was to keep poor and uneducated people, especially Negroes in the South, from voting.

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Literacy tests and poll taxes were used to keep the newly-freed African Americans from voting. Because many blacks could neither read nor write (for the literacy test), and were poor (and so could not afford to pay the poll tax), they were kept from voting.

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How did southerners keep freedmen from voting?

by poll taxes, made them pass literacy test, and the Grandfather clause. :)


What was the impact of literacy test and poll taxes in Georgia?

They kept blacks and poor whites from voting


Literacy test and poll taxes were often used to do what?

They were used to prevent African-Americans from voting.


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.


Many southern states used literacy test and poll taxes to prevent citizens from voting?

true


The most direct effect of taxes and rafi test on African American was to?

The most direct effect of poll taxes and literacy tests on African Americans was to prevent them from voting. Poll taxes were part of Jim Crow laws.


Why did southern state develop poll taxes literacy test and grandfather clauses?

to limit african americans right to vote


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.


Did both literacy test and poll taxes were instituted to deny certain groups from voting?

Yes, they were both instituted to keep certain groups from voting.


Which of the following kept freed slaves from voting in the southa. Poll taxB.CarpetbaggersC.ScalawagsD. Literacy test?

Literacy Test cuz they couldnt read


Which of the following did southern whites used to disenfranchise african Americans after the civil war?

They authorized Jim Crow Laws that limited segregated freedmen (former slaves) from whites. Also, the made black codes that made blacks act a certain way. They made poll taxes and literacy test to stop blacks from voting.