Question

Which was a legal tactic used by whites in the post-Reconstruction South to deny blacks their voting rights?

Answer 1

The correct answer is Poll tax.

A poll tax was a sum of money an individual had to pay in order to vote in elections. This negatively effected newly freed slaves because very few of them were able to earn currency. Instead, they relied on a system of sharecropping where they continued to work on farms and were rewarded with land and crops instead of money.