Southern states used poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses to keep African Americans from voting. These measures were implemented as a means of disenfranchising Black voters and circumventing the protections granted to them during Reconstruction, ultimately aiming to maintain white supremacy and control in the political system.
Why did Southern states use poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses as Reconstruction came to an end?(1 point) Responses to ensure voters would remain loyal to the Union to ensure voters would remain loyal to the Union to keep poor white Southerners from voting to keep poor white Southerners from voting to keep African Americans from voting to keep African Americans from voting to maintain Republican control of state governments
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