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Why did southern state governments create poll taxes literacy test and grandfather clauses?
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∙ 13y ago
To Women African-American’s right to vote
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To limit african americans the right to vote
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To limit african americans the right to vote
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To limit african americans the right to vote
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∙ 13y agoTo limit African Americans' right to vote
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∙ 7y agoThey did this to keep exslaves from voting. It was against the law to teach a slave to read, so they knew if the added a literacy test that they wouldn't pass. Even though the exslaves were paid they were charged for food, housing, and clothing so the poll tax was added because they knew that they didn't have enough money to pay for the tax so that stopped them from voting. The grandfather clause referred to pass laws which they could add to current law. They were "grandfathered " into law. Again, these were laws that had been used for slavery, but it stopped voting.
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To limit african americans the right to vote
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What of the following voting rules was based upon and individual African Americans family history?
Grandfather clauses were based upon individual African American's family histories.
What did grandfather clauses mean to African American who wanted to vote?
The couldn't vote if their grandfather had not allowed to vote
How did southern states prohibit African Americans from voting after reconstruction ended?
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.
What 3 ways African Americans were prevented from voting?
There were no such laws. Blacks were still slaves in 1800. We were not recognized as people under the Constitution and citizenship/voting rights are reserved to people. Since we had no rights, there was no need for laws forbidding us the right to vote. It was understood that we had no legal rights.
What impact have amendments and the civil rights act had on suffrage?
Amendments made it possible for women and African Americans and other minorities to vote, and the civil rights act made it illegal to impose poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses on the voting offices.
Why did southern state governments poll taxes literacy tests and grandfather clauses?
To limit African Americans' right to vote
What did southern state governments create poll taxes literacy tests and grandfather clauses?
To limit African Americans’ right to vote
Why did southern governments create poll taxes literacy tests and grandfather clauses?
To Women African-American’s right to vote
Why did southern state develop poll taxes literacy test and grandfather clauses?
to limit african americans right to vote
Why did southern state government create poll taxes literacy and grandfather clauses?
to limit african americans’ right to vote
Why did southern state governments create poll taxes literally tests and grandfather clauses?
To lemon African Americans right to vote I think
What poll taxes literacy tests and grandfather clauses have in common?
Both the poll tax literacy tests and grandfather clauses were developed in order to continue the oppression of African Americans in the United States. These laws negated the ability for African Americans to vote and have their voice heard in government, even though the United States had officially stated that there was equality between the Caucasian population and the African American population. These clauses were introduced in seven different Southern states between 1895 and 1910.
What efforts were made to protect black rights during reconstruction?
the grandfather clauses and literacy tests and poll taxes.
How did southern stated top Africa Americans from voting after the 15th amendment was passed?
Southern states instituted poll taxes (where someone has to pay to vote), literacy tests (where someone has to read and sometimes explain part of the Constitution or another government document) and grandfather clauses, which mean that you are only eligible to vote if your grandfather was.
Five instruments used to keep racial minorities from voting?
Grandfather clauses white primaries literacy tests gerrymandering
What was grandfather clauses designed to?
I'm about 97.3% sure it is Chuck Norris.
At the end of the reconstruction southern whites disenfranchised African Americans with?
Literacy RequirementsPoll TaxesEconomic IntimidationGrandfather Clauses
