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What did most Southern states require their citizens to do in order to vote?
Pay a poll tax, and pass a literacy test and the Grandfather Clause.
a high tax that had to be paid before a person could vote.
the poll tax
What bothered many Southerners about Reconstruction governements?
Seeing former slaves voting and holding public office.
Tests that proved that a citizen could read before allowing them to vote.
literacy tests
Did these new laws (poll tax and literacy test) violate the 15th Amendment?
In theory, these laws applied equally to blacks and whites and, for that reason, did not violate the 15th Amendment.
Southerners formed groups to keep African Americans from
voting
This was a secret society of whites formed to drive African Americans out of political life. (I need the full name)
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
What political party did the Southern hate groups belong to?
Democrat
What year did Louisiana return to conservative rule?
1877
The federal government stopped the KKK and other secret groups in the late 18___s and early 18___s.
1860s and early 1870s