The correct answer is Southern states.
Poll taxes and literacy tests were the southern states response to the newly passed 15th amendment, which gave African-American men the right to vote. To stop this from happening, southern states made citizens pay a tax (aka a fee) to vote and made them take extremely difficult literacy tests. States that used these tactics include Florida, Alabama, Arkansas, and South Carolina.
True because congress controls spending. The government can't spend anything without congress's approval.
I think its called being persuasave
