RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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blacks were forced to sign a piece of paper before they could vote
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blacks were forced to take a reading test prior to voting.
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blacks were askes to write a passage before voting
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blacks were forced to recite the pledge of alliance before voting
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Detailed explanation-1: -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 and intimidation) were all used to deny suffrage to African Americans.
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: -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.