<span>They showed that many women felt free to do the things they wanted rather than what was traditionally expected of them.</span>
this is " Is better than cure"
Southern state legislatures employed literacy tests as part of the voter registration process starting in the late 19th century. Literacy tests, along with poll taxes, residency and property restrictions and extra-legal activities (violence, intimidation) were all used to deny suffrage to African Americans.
They believed the federal government should have power to create and collect taxes.
