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What was the purpose of the poll tax and the literacy test
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What was the purpose of the poll tax and the literacy test

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They Kept Blacks and Poor Whites from voting.

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The poll tax and literacy test were ways to stop African Americans from voting. Most people who recently just got freed of slavery were poor and could not read, which were requirements to vote under these new rules.
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