What Were "Grandfather Clauses

question 5

Multiple Choice

What were "grandfather clauses"?

• A) voting restriction clauses which held that someone could vote only if his father or grandfather had been able to vote before a certain time, usually the end of slavery
• B) limitations on voting to those people who were grandfathers
• C) limitations on voting to those who could prove that their grandfathers had been residents of the state as well; because blacks moved around so much after Reconstruction, they rarely qualified
• D) a clause requiring all grandfathers to vote before their sons

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