Assuming you're still referring to the Fifteenth Amendment, many critics pointed out that the newly-freed slaves lacked the proper amount of education to make informed voting decisions, and that it would be detrimental to the state to have them vote in general and local elections.
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The correct answer should be People felt a pressure to conform to avoid suspicion
Everyone was afraid of being branded as a communist and it could happen because of anything. Those people would then have various issues in their lives even though.