Which of the following strategies were used to disenfranchise black Georgians in the early 1900s?

Question

options:

Poll tax, literacy test, white primary

Poll tax, white primary, voting rights act

General elections, Fifteenth Amendment, poll tax

Grandfather clause, white primary, Fifteenth Amendment

Answer 1

The correct answer is:

Poll tax, literacy test, white primary

These strategies were used in the early 1900s to disenfranchise black Georgians and other African Americans throughout the South. The poll tax required payment to vote, literacy tests assessed reading and understanding ability (often unfairly applied), and white primaries excluded black voters from participating in primary elections.

Answer 2

Why were "Jim Crow" laws passed in Georgia?

options:

to encourage industrial growth
to encourage industrial growth

to enforce the policy of segregation
to enforce the policy of segregation

to protect the civil rights of minorities
to protect the civil rights of minorities

to provide financial relief to farmers