Question

Select ALL the correct answers.

How did southern states keep African Americans from voting without violating the Fifteenth Amendment?


a.) by setting up lynching stations around the polls

b.) by requiring voters to pass literacy tests

c.) by requiring voters to live in the state in which they vote

d.) by requiring voters to pay poll taxes

e.) by creating laws to socially separate races

Answer 1

Southern states kept African Americans from voting by:

• b.) by requiring voters to pass literacy tests
• d.) by requiring voters to pay poll taxes

Southern States were not happy with the Fifteenth Amendment as it meant that Black Americans could now vote. They therefore came up with various ways to stop them from voting such as:

• Literacy tests - They required that voters displayed a certain degree of literacy before they could vote. As Black Americans were excluded from proper education, most of them could not pass these tests and vote.

• Poll taxes - they required that voters pay a certain fee in order to vote which was unfair to Black Americans as most of them lived in abject poverty.

In conclusion, the Southerners were very creative in coming up with ways to avoid the Black Vote because they simply could not accept Blacks as their equals.

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