Why did Southern states use poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses as Reconstruction came to an

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O to keep African Americans from voting
O to maintain Republican control of state governments
O to ensure voters would remain loyal to the Union
O to keep poor white Southerners from voting

Answer 1

The correct answer is: to keep African Americans from voting.

Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses were implemented by Southern states as measures to disenfranchise African American voters and, in some cases, poor white voters. These tools were part of Jim Crow laws aimed at maintaining white supremacy and circumventing the amendments that granted African Americans the right to vote after the Civil War.