4. What was the purpose of a poll tax? (1 point)

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• To keep Republican governments out of southern states.
• To prevent African Americans from voting in elections.
• To prevent sharecroppers from leaving their farms with unpaid debts.
• To ensure that disenfranchised voters could vote in elections.
5. How did African Americans in the post-Civil War era respond to the hostile environment of the South? (1 point)
• They confiscated land on abandoned plantations.
• They disenfranchised voters who did not have residency.
• They supported legislation to bring industry to the South
• They migrated to the northeast and Midwest to work in factones.

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4. The purpose of a poll tax was to prevent African Americans from voting in elections.

5. African Americans in the post-Civil War era responded to the hostile environment of the South by migrating to the northeast and Midwest to work in factories.