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The most direct effect of poll taxes and literacy tests on african americans was that they made it extremely difficult for African Americans to vote freely in elections in the South, since African Americans were at a very unfair disadvantage due to a lack of money and education.
You didnt state what the Confederates were surprised with!!!!!