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4. Why did Southern states use poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses as

Reconstruction came to an end?

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This was the pattern in most of the Southern states during Reconstruction. ... When poll taxes, literacy tests, "grandfather clauses," and "white primaries" did not stop blacks ... The Voting Rights Act of 1965ended the practices that had denied African Americans the ... What other methods were used to stop blacks from voting
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