Author Question: What was the problem, in the views of many southern states, with voting laws like literacy tests, ... (Read 56 times)

HudsonKB16 · **on:** Aug 9, 2018

What was the problem, in the views of many southern states, with voting laws like literacy tests, poll taxes, and property qualifications?

A) The laws were too subtle; voting should be directly outlawed.
B) Since quite a few blacks owned property, they could still vote.
C) Since blacks could be voting registrars, they could override the tests and admit anyone.
D) The laws might possibly eliminate poor, illiterate white voters as well as black voters.

Question 2

How does the image of a rural black man voting that appears in Chapter 14 reflect challenges faced by black voters during the late 1800s in the South?

A) Whites are attempting to regulate the opportunity to vote to late at night only.
B) Whites are attempting to stop black men but not black women from voting.
C) Whites are attempting to provide extra voting literature for the black man to read.
D) Whites are attempting to manipulate the black voter through alcohol and violence.