Question

How could a poll tax or a literacy test has been used to prevent someone from voting?
The Civil war Amendments
Before. After

Answer 1

What about Civil War amendments before and after? And what is your answer to the question?

Answer 2

My first question is "how could a poll tax or a literacy test have been usd to prevent someone from voting?
My second question is how was civil war amendments before and after

Answer 3

Katy, submit or post your answers and we will critique them. We will not do your homework for you. The second question makes no sense.

Answer 4

My guess on my first question was that if in early years adult citizen has not pay there taxes they are not allow to vote then.
My second is basically how was civil war amendment like before and how is it like now

Answer 5

The poll tax and literacy test applied to everyone -- but was specifically enforced for African-Americans in the South. Many didn't have much money and were poorly educated. Also -- many blacks were given much harder literacy tests than whites.

I don't understand your second question either.

Answer 6

You are very wrong on question 1. Question 2 still makes no sense. What amendment or amendments? What was amended?

Answer 7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_tax_(United_States)

Answer 8

How was 13,14,15 amendments before and how is 13,14,14 amendments after

Answer 9

I still don't get number 1

Answer 10

A person couldn't vote until they paid the tax and passed a literacy test.

Answer 11

The poll tax and literacy tests were meant to prevent African Americans from voting, even though the 14th and 15th amendments to the constitution allowed them to vote. The poll tax, a tax paid for the right to vote, was set high enough that poor people could not pay it. A literacy test (reading test or something akin to it) was applied differently to whites and African Americans. For example, a black man might be asked to recite the entire Constitution of the United States (which no one can do from memory), and thus fail the test, while a white man might be asked something very simple that anyone could answer.

Answer 12

The 13th, 14th, 15th amendments:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_Amendments

Before or after what?

Answer 13

Amendments: The 13th amendment abolished slavery, which was allowed in the Constitution before the Civil War. The 14th amendment applied all provisions of the U. S. Constitution to the states. The 15th amendment gave freed slaves the right to vote, which was not guaranteed before the Civil War.

Answer 14

How was 13,14,15 amendments before and how is 13,14,14 amendments now like

Answer 15

In other words, the 14th amendment says that all state laws must conform to the United States Constitution. Please read those amendments.

Answer 16

Never mind I got the second question thanks for helping

Answer 17

Well, I was a bit misleading in my quick summary of the 14th amendment. It defines citizenship.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...amendments_to_the_United_States_Constitution

Answer 18

bla

Answer 19

so lemme get this straight, you had to pay a tax, so you have a hand and an actual stake on the state, basically you had to help the state, and you had to know how to read and write, so you can place the right ballot, and if you cannot do either, then you don't vote.
how is that unfair? the only way this can stop black people from voing is if you believe blacks are ignorant and poor on behalf of being black, who compilated this question?

Answer 20

as for an actual answer, it can only stop people who don't know how to read, or have no stake on the state, and should not be voting anyway, my previous answer was more on a response on that guy Reed, who the heck is teaching people this .