To Make It Hard for Poor Blacks to Vote Without

question 53

Short Answer

To make it hard for poor blacks to vote without falling afoul of the Fifteenth Amendment,many southern states required citizens to pay __________,which disproportionately disenfranchised African Americans.

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Definitions:

Tax

Compulsory financial charges or some other type of levy imposed upon a taxpayer by a governmental organization in order to fund government spending and various public expenditures.

Price Ceiling

A Price Ceiling is a government-imposed limit on how high a price can be charged for a product, intended to protect consumers from exorbitant prices.

Supply Curve

A graph showing the relationship between the quantity of a good that producers are willing to sell and the price of the good.

Gasoline

A petroleum-derived flammable liquid primarily used as fuel in internal combustion engines.