Question

Question 8 (Worth 5 points)

(MC)What was the main effect of the grandfather clauses and literacy tests put in place in the South at the end of the 19th century?

African American voters were disenfranchised.

The Republican Party maintained its dominance.

Emancipated slaves were forced to work on plantations. wrong

Poor people were excluded from the political system.

Answer 1

The correct answer here is that African Americans were disenfranchised by the system that they were not being let into because of skills that they had been provided with. Additionally, even if they had been taught well, these 'grandfather clauses' and 'literacy tests' were actually just impossible tests and riddles that could not really be marked correctly.