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During the jim crow era, southern states imposed poll taxes and literacy test in order to

Posted on October 22, 2021 By Jasaide15 5 Comments on During the jim crow era, southern states imposed poll taxes and literacy test in order to

During the jim crow era, southern states imposed poll taxes and literacy test in order to

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Comments (5) on “During the jim crow era, southern states imposed poll taxes and literacy test in order to”

  1. yovann says:
    October 23, 2021 at 3:03 pm

    Southern states imposed poll taxes and literacy test to prevent African Americans from voting.

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  2. dbende00 says:
    October 23, 2021 at 6:00 pm

    In order to prevent African Americans from exercising their right to vote.

    Poll taxes means you have to pay a tax before allowed to vote.  That's a way of preventing poor persons (like blacks in the South) from voting.

    In addition to poll taxes, other measures were also used to block blacks from participating in the voting process, such as literacy tests. Literacy tests would require persons to pass certain standards of reading and writing in order to qualify for voting.  These tests were aimed at blacks, who had not had access to the same education as whites.

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  3. ashleymstep15 says:
    October 23, 2021 at 6:19 pm

    A.prevent African Americans from exercising their right to vote.

    Poll taxes means you have to pay a tax before allowed to vote.  That's a way of preventing poor persons (like blacks in the South) from voting.

    In addition to poll taxes, other measures were also used to block blacks from participating in the voting process, such as literacy tests. Literacy tests would require persons to pass certain standards of reading and writing in order to qualify for voting.  These tests were aimed at blacks, who had not had access to the same education as whites.

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  4. meghan0123 says:
    October 24, 2021 at 3:44 am

     prevent African Americans from exercising their right to vote

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  5. netflixacc0107 says:
    October 24, 2021 at 5:07 am

    Prevent African Americans from exercising their right to vote.

    Explanation:

    The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1870) granted the right to vote to all Americans regardless of their race, for the first time, which included African American, who had been harshly discriminated and mistreated for decades. This was a big step to put a halt on discrimination and gain equality of rights. However, in reality, many white Americans, especially Southerners, fiercely opposed to fully include black people as equal in society. Consequently, they began to enact a series of acts that prevented them from exercise their rights.

    Some of the many legislation that Southern states passed during this "Jim Crow era" to prevent African Americans from exercising their right to vote was to impose poll taxes, which sometimes black people could not pay, and to force them to take literacy tests as a requirement to vote, which, again, they often failed.

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