LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
SLAVERY IN AMERICA COTTON SLAVE TRADE AND THE SOUTHERN RESPONSE
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If you could not read you could not vote.
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If your family was able to vote before the Civil War, you could vote too.
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Prevented poor blacks from voting.
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Prevented rich blacks from voting.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Prior to passage of the federal Voting Rights Act in 1965, Southern states maintained elaborate voter registration procedures deliberately designed to deny the vote to nonwhites. This process was often referred to as a “literacy test, ” a term that had two different meanings-one specific and one general.
Detailed explanation-2: -After the Civil War, many states enacted literacy tests as a voting requirement. The purpose was to exclude persons with minimal literacy, in particular, poor African Americans in the South, from voting.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the United States, between the 1850s and 1960s, literacy tests were administered to prospective voters, and this had the effect of disenfranchising African Americans and others with diminished access to education.