Question

Q7
Study the bulleted list below and answer the question that follows:
• Poll taxes
• Literacy tests
• Grandfather clauses
The measures in this list are examples of ways southern states weakened the effects of the ---
(1 point)
• Compromise of 1850
• Fifteenth Amendment
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Dred Scott v. Sandford decision
What was one long-term consequence of the sharecropping system?
(1 point)
• Agricultural workers organized labor unions.
• Many former slaves became trapped in a cycle of debt.
• Many agricultural workers moved to cities to start small businesses.
• Landowners sold property to pay wages to former slaves.

Answer 1

The measures in the bulleted list (poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses) are examples of ways southern states weakened the effects of the **Fifteenth Amendment**.

One long-term consequence of the sharecropping system is that **many former slaves became trapped in a cycle of debt**.