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What are two ways southern states went around the fifteenth amendment? they elected only whites to political offices. they required voters to take literacy tests. they used violence to keep whites away. they required all voters to pay a poll tax?

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Two ways that southern states avoided the fifteenth Amendment was requiring voters to take literacy tests because the majority of blacks were not educated, and requiring a poll tax because all blacks at that time were poorer than whites.

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