Question

What was used to prevent African American men from voting in the late 1800s?
tenant contracts
subsistence farms
poll taxes
minstrel shows

Answer 1

violence

Answer 2

In the late 1800s, **poll taxes** were used as a means to prevent African American men from voting. Poll taxes required individuals to pay a fee in order to cast their votes, which effectively disenfranchised many African Americans and poor white voters who could not afford to pay the tax. This practice, along with other discriminatory measures such as literacy tests and understanding clauses, was part of the broader system of Jim Crow laws that enforced racial segregation and inequality in the United States.