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Stopped African Americans from being able to register to vote.

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What president outlawed poll tax and literacy tests for blacks?

President Johnson


What did southerner whites use to disenfranchise African Americans after the civil war?

poll taxes and literacy tests


How did southerners keep former slaves from voting?

they made the poll tax law, literacy lawand the grandfather clause to prevent MOST freed black men from voting


What did Jim Crow laws poll taxes and literacy tests have in common?

Jim Crow laws segregated, poll tax and literacy tests prevented most freed slaves from voting, because one of the amendments said voting can not be prevented because of skin color, it was too specific.


What were literacy tests and poll taxes used to keep blacks from?

voting


How did conservative democrats disenfranchise African Americans?

Poll taxes and literacy tests


What is literacy tax and poll tax?

A poll tax was an amount of money that a person was forced to pay in order to vote. After the Civil War in the South, poll tax laws were created in order to prevent freed slaves from voting


What was the poll tax and literacy test?

The poll tax and the literacy tests were methods used to prevent certain classes of people from voting.The poll tax, aimed at lower socioeconomic classes, was a tax one had to pay in order to vote.The literacy test, generally implemented against African Americans pre Civil Rights movement, was a test whose alleged purpose was to determine that a voter could read the ballot; however many times authorities would give prospective voters foreign reading materials in order to ensure they weren't allowed to vote.


What did some southern states require from African Americans?

Poll taxes and literacy tests


What Poll taxes and literacy tests were part of what type of laws?

Jim Crow Laws


What 3 thing did South Carolina Constitution of 1893 do?

*Illegalized Interacial Marriage *Segregated Public Schools *Made Voting Illegal Without Passing Literacy/Poll Tax tests


What did some southern states require from African-American voters?

Poll taxes and literacy tests