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Poll taxes and literacy tests effectively negated the rights African Americans had gained with the
Thirteenth Amendment.
Fourteenth Amendment.
Fifteenth Amendment.
Civil Rights Act of 1875.

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Poll taxes and literacy tests were measures employed primarily in the South to disenfranchise African American voters after the Reconstruction era. These practices effectively negated the rights that African Americans had gained with the **Fifteenth Amendment**, which was ratified in 1870 and specifically aimed to guarantee African American men the right to vote. The use of these discriminatory practices was a way to circumvent the protections provided by the Fifteenth Amendment and maintain white supremacy in the electoral process.

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