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Laws against African Americans. These laws were made by democrats at the end of the civil war.
One method was the poll tax - for the most part, blacks couldn't afford it. Another was literacy tests (white voters were given much easier versions). A third was laws restricting voting rights to those whose grandfathers had been eligible to vote - hence the term, "grandfather clause."
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How was the poll tax used as a voting qualifications?
A poll tax was used to keep African Americans from voting. Most African Americans did not have very high paying jobs and could not afford to vote. This assured that whites were the predominant race to participate in electing officials.
Why did southern state governments create poll taxes literacy test and grandfather clauses?
To Women African-American’s right to vote
What were literacy tests and poll taxes used to keep blacks from?
voting
What tactics use to intimidate African-Americans and whites who supported African-Americans?
There were many horrible tactics used to intimidate African Americans and the non-African Americans who supported them. There were fiery crosses burned in yards, bricks thrown through windows, and people beaten.
What techniques was used to prevent blacks from voting in the South during the late 19th century?
Literacy tests were used to prevent African-Americans from voting, grandfather clauses were enacted into law which only allowed someone to vote if their grandfather could vote, and states enacted poll taxes which did not allow people, usually black or poor whites, to vote if they could not pay the tax.
How was grandfather clauses used to keep free African Americans from voting?
salvery
What tactics have been used to keep African Americans from voting and what has not been attempted to keep them from voting?
Not court orders but Literacy Tests
What were some of the legal means used to keep African Americans from voting?
megan rose iniott
What did the ku klux klan do diminish voting for African Americans?
They used threats and violence in order to prevent African Americans from voting
What were the three devices used to prevent African Americans from voting?
The Black Codes and Jim Crow laws were established to further restrict the freedom of African Americans. The methods used to keep them from voting were literacy tests, pole taxes, and terror organizations.
How was the poll tax used as a voting qualifications?
A poll tax was used to keep African Americans from voting. Most African Americans did not have very high paying jobs and could not afford to vote. This assured that whites were the predominant race to participate in electing officials.
How was poll tax used as a voting qualification?
A poll tax was used to keep African Americans from voting. Most African Americans did not have very high paying jobs and could not afford to vote. This assured that whites were the predominant race to participate in electing officials.
How was poll tax used as voting qualification?
A poll tax was used to keep African Americans from voting. Most African Americans did not have very high paying jobs and could not afford to vote. This assured that whites were the predominant race to participate in electing officials.
Who killed and intimidated African Americans from voting and used terror to discourage whites from protecting the rights of African Americans?
Ku klux an
Literacy test and poll taxes were often used to do what?
They were used to prevent African-Americans from voting.
What hasn't been used to keep African Americans from voting?
I'm pretty sure large robots with laser guns have not been used yet. However, this has been addressed. Here is hoping that the mega laser bots can keep the blacks from voting at all this 2012!
What group used violence to prevent African Americans from voting?
the ku klux klan
