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African Americans became disenfranchised through all of the following practices EXCEPT

A) increased poll taxes.
B) property requirements.
C) threats made by the Ku Klux Klan.
D) laws forbidding African Americans from attending school.

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African Americans became disenfranchised through all of the following practices except laws forbidding African Americans from attending school.

Option D

Step-by-step explanation:

Disenfranchisement in the United States was established after the period of reconstruction on a number of laws, modern constitutions, and policies in the South which were purposely used to discourage the registering of black people to vote.

All white and black voters were bound by the poll tax provisions and were unfavorable for the poor. Most states had to pay the tax independently from the votes which eventually allowed voters to carry receipts to the polls.

The Klan started an intimidating battle against blacks and loyal whites. Vandalism and property damage, physical assaults and murders, and beheading were all part of their brutality.

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