-How Does This Image of a Texas Poll Tax Receipt

question 30

Multiple Choice

-How does this image of a Texas poll tax receipt exemplify the ineffectiveness of the Fifteenth Amendment when it came to the enfranchisement of African Americans?

• A) The amendment allowed states to establish property requirements for suffrage, and at the time most African Americans did not own land or property.
• B) The amendment stated that suffrage could not be denied or abridged because of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude," so Southerners found other ways to disenfranchise blacks.
• C) The amendment used flowery, indirect language that was too vague and therefore very easy to undermine.
• D) The amendment denied suffrage to anyone who was unable to read and write.

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