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Which term describes a legal means southern whites used to prevent blacks from voting in the post-Reconstruction era?

poll tax
blackmail
income tax
deportation

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Poll tax

Poll taxes were used so that poor people (who were disproportionately black) could not afford to vote.
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Id say poll tax

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