What Were "Grandfather Clauses

question 13

Multiple Choice

What were "grandfather clauses"?

• A) voting restrictions, which said that someone could only vote if his father or grandfather had been able to vote before a certain time (generally right at 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; since 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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