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Answer:
In the United States, voting poll taxes (whose payment was a precondition to voting in an election) have been used to disenfranchise impoverished and minority voters (especially under Reconstruction).
Explanation:
The purpose of Hay's notes was to grant all the major powers equal access to Chinese trade and reduce the influence of countries that already had an especially large hold in China (such as Japan and Russia) so they couldn't force other countries (particularly the United States) out of the Chinese market.
The railroads, in the U.S., helped move people westward.
