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How did southern states prohibit African Americans from voting after reconstruction ended?
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∙ 9y ago
Even after the 15th Amendment white southerners mostly kept blacks away from the polls by intimidation. Also many clauses were added to keep blacks from voting such as the one that required them to be literate (the ability to read and write) to cast their ballot. There was also something a Poll Tax (a tax which was imposed on someone when they went to vote) which was only imposed upon the Africa Americans.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 12y agomany of the Southern states keep freed African Americans from voting by poll taxes, the grandfather clauses, and literacy tests.
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∙ 9y agoby poll taxes, literarcy tests and granfather clauses these did not allow them to vote
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∙ 10y agoDuring the Reconstruction period immediately following the Civil War, poll taxes and literacy tests were the most predominant form of keeping blacks from voting.
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Republican governments in the southern states during reconstruction were unpopular because?
African Americans remained disenfranchised
What action did congress take to support southern African Americans?
congress overturned johnsons vetoes on major reconstruction legislation
What factors led to the end of reconstruction?
Reconstruction collapsed around 1877, when Southern Democrats gained power in all the former Confederate states. The Southern Democrats opposed the reforms of Reconstruction and deprived African-Americans of the political rights they had gained during Reconstruction.
How were African Americans given citizenship rights after the Civil?
With the Reconstruction Amendments
What was Reconstruction was successful in?
it raised african americans expectations of their right to citizenship
How did the southern states prohibit African Americans from voting after Reconstruction ended?
they created poll taxes and literacy tests to stop African Americans from voting; the taxes succeeded because the newly freed African Americans had been forbidden to read as slaves, and had little, or no money to vote with.
Republican governments in the southern states during reconstruction were unpopular because?
African Americans remained disenfranchised
What nickname was given to people from southern states that supported reconstruction laws that helped African Americans?
Scalawag
At the end of the reconstruction southern whites disenfranchised African Americans with?
Literacy RequirementsPoll TaxesEconomic IntimidationGrandfather Clauses
What did the end of reconstruction have on African Americans?
Southern states passed racist Jim Crow Laws that limited African American freedoms and restricted many of the rights they had received under Reconstruction.
What did congress take to support southern African Americans?
congress overturned johnsons vetoes on major reconstruction legislation
Why did freedom for Americans become a distant dream after Reconstruction ended?
As Reconstruction ended, African Americans' dreams for justice faded. Laws passed by the redeemer governments denied Southern African Americans many of their newly won rights.
What action did congress take to support southern African Americans?
congress overturned johnsons vetoes on major reconstruction legislation
Which were the two southern states with the largest number of African Americans serving in state during reconstruction?
Mississippi and South Carolina
When reconstruction ended did the southern states pass the Jim krowe law to help African Americans?
No. They passed them to separate whites from blacks and keep African-Americans in an inferior social and economic position.
Which two southern states had the largest number of African Americans serving in state legislature during Reconstruction?
Mississippi and South Carolina
Have African Americans once given the right to vote ever belong to the Republican Party?
When African Americans were first guaranteed the right to vote during Reconstruction, most of them voted for Republican candidates. This was because Southern Whites who were against Reconstruction mostly belonged to the Democratic Party.
