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They added requirements such as owning property and passing literacy tests. Former slaves owned no property and it was illegal to teach them how to read or write. Even if former slaves could read, the tests given to them would likely be rigged somehow, such as being given in the wrong language.
The Grandfather clause was another, saying you could not vote unless your grandfather could. It was tied to the above two requirements. Since their grandfathers likely didn't own property nor were able to read, then they didn't qualify to vote either.
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What was used to keep African Americans from voting?
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."
Why did southern state governments create poll taxes literacy test and grandfather clauses?
To Women African-American’s right to vote
Why do black Americans have tempory voting rights?
I African Americans do not have temporary voting rights, but have voting rights since 1964 with the Civil Rights Act and the voting rights act. Some states have begun to limit voting rights by adding new laws that require identification checks. Some older people do not have or need the types of identification required and are not allowed to vote.
Why was it unusual that African Americans supported Franklin D Roosevelt?
.FDR was a Democrat and most African Americans voted Republican.
Why were African American in new England in the early 1800s allowed to vote?
No. African Americans and women were not allowed to vote. Women gained the right in 1920 and African Americans in 1867, but it wasn't until a 100 years later that they fully gained voting rights due to "Jim Crow" laws.
