To limit voting by African Americans
poll taxes and literacy tests
Ten Southern states implemented literacy tests and poll taxes to disenfranchise black citizens. These were done effectively through the passage of the Black Codes.
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poll taxes and literacy tests
President Johnson
poll taxes and literacy tests
they made the poll tax law, literacy lawand the grandfather clause to prevent MOST freed black men from voting
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.
voting
Poll taxes and literacy tests
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
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.
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Jim Crow Laws
*Illegalized Interacial Marriage *Segregated Public Schools *Made Voting Illegal Without Passing Literacy/Poll Tax tests
Poll taxes and literacy tests