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—First they created the Poll Tax: a tax that had to be paid before one could vote
—It wasn't generally a high tax, but for poor sharecropping families it often proved too expensive
—Bourbons also created Literacy Tests: A test to prove literacy and understanding of the state constitution
—African Americans were discriminated against by being forced to take a much harder Literacy test than white voters
—Finally, the Bourbons passed the "Grandfather Clause" which allowed southern whites to be exempt from the Poll tax or Literacy Test
—It stated that if a person's father or grandfather had voted in the past, then that person could vote
—This discriminated against African Americans because their fathers and grandfathers could not vote, but white voters had been voting in America for centuries
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3 ways in which African Americans were discriminated against during the post reconstruction era?
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African Americans were used as slaves, discriminated against because white people didnt treat them as equal. Native Americans because they were forced to move west in "the trail of tears" because that one white president was greedy and discriminated against them
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