Question

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

Answer 1

The measures in the list (poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses) are examples of ways southern states weakened the effects of the **Fifteenth Amendment**. The Fifteenth Amendment, ratified in 1870, was intended to grant African American men the right to vote, but these discriminatory practices were used to circumvent that right.