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svp [43]
3 years ago
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What was the purpose of laws such as literacy tests and poll taxes enacted in the South in the late 1800s?

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coldgirl [10]3 years ago
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The south used these laws to prevent African Americans from voting although it backfired since many of the white southerners didn't have money or much education either.

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