Southern states used poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses primarily to keep African Americans from voting. These measures were implemented as a means to disenfranchise Black voters after the Reconstruction era, effectively circumventing the legal rights granted to them, such as the right to vote.
Why did Southern states use poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses as Reconstruction came to an end?(1 point) Responses to maintain Republican control of state governments to maintain Republican control of state governments 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 ensure voters would remain loyal to the Union
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