Multiple choice

Literacy tests & grandfather clauses were enacted in the South after the Reconstruction Era to

  1. increase the number of women voters

  2. limit the number of African American voters

  3. guarantee the voters could read and write

  4. ensure that former slaves met property requirements
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B Correct answer
Explanation

After the Civil War, Southern states implemented literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses to circumvent the 15th Amendment and effectively disenfranchise African American voters.

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