Question

Following the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, which states attempted to limit voting rights of African Americans through poll taxes and literacy tests?

Answer 1

Those states were the Southern states. These states deprived most black and poor white men to vote, establishing literacy and comprehension exams, poll taxes, and residence requisites after the Fifteenth Amendment was approved in 1869 and was ratified by thirty states in 1870. Those states were:

• Texas
• Alabama
• Georgia
• North Carolina
• South Carolina
• Virginia
• Georgia
• Florida
• Tennessee
• Arkansas
• Louisiana
• Mississippi

Answer 2

B.southern states, according to testing sites