Read the provisions from the 1898 Louisiana Constitution and answer the question. Type of Provision Text of Provision Literacy requirement [The voter] shall be able to read and write, and shall demonstrate his ability to do so when he applies for registration. Property ownership requirement If [the voter] be not able to read and write . . . he shall be entitled to register and vote if he . . . be the bona fide owner of property assessed to him in this State at a valuation of not less than three hundred dollars. Grandfather clause No male person who was on January 1st, 1867, or at any date prior thereto, entitled to vote . . ., and no son or grandson of any such . . . shall be denied the right to register and vote in this State by reason of his failure to possess the educational or property qualifications prescribed by this Constitution What was the MAIN goal of grandfather clauses such as this that were adopted in many states in the South? (1 point) Responses to exempt white citizens from voting restrictions that were created to stop Black citizens from exercising their right to vote to exempt white citizens from voting restrictions that were created to stop Black citizens from exercising their right to vote to ensure that Black citizens were able to exercise their right to vote by exempting them from restrictions on voting to ensure that Black citizens were able to exercise their right to vote by exempting them from restrictions on voting to grant all people who lived in the United States when the clauses were made law the right to vote regardless of gender to grant all people who lived in the United States when the clauses were made law the right to vote regardless of gender to grant all men who lived in the United States when the clauses were made law the right to vote regardless of their wealth to grant all men who lived in the United States when the clauses were made law the right to vote regardless of their wealth Skip to navigation

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The MAIN goal of grandfather clauses such as the one mentioned was to exempt white citizens from voting restrictions that were created to stop Black citizens from exercising their right to vote. These clauses allowed white individuals to circumvent literacy tests and property ownership requirements that were effectively used to disenfranchise Black voters after the Reconstruction era.