How did Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, and literacy tests affect blacks in the

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period following the Civil War? A They promoted economic independence for freed slaves.

B They helped make it possible for blacks to vote.

C They promoted segregation and denied blacks their rights.

D They had little effect on blacks.



2) What was one of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony's goals?

A Gain immediate women's suffrage.

B Allow men to advocate for women's suffrage.

C Achieve voting rights in selected states.

D Gain voting rights in exchange for restricting some employment opportunities for women.


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As your questions are phrased, C and A are the correct answers, but it should be noted that poll taxes also denied the vote to white people, if they were too poor to pay the $1 or $2 amount that was charged for the poll tax. Eventually, several Southern States developed a much more efficient way to deny blacks the right to vote.

In about 1935, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the validity of the white-only primary. Texas had adopted a statute prohibiting blacks from voting in the Democratic primary. This is effectively disenfranchised blacks, because in those days, in the South, there was no other party, and winning the Democratic primary was tantamount to election. Other states, inspired by the Supreme Court's decision, also adopted white-only primary laws (e.g. Florida), and in conjunction with that, repealed their poll tax.

In 1944, however, the U.S. Supreme Court changed its mind, and decided that the white-only primary was a bad idea. This led a dissenting Justice of the Supreme Court to say that Supreme Court decisions were like special train tickets, good for this day and this trip only, or words to that effect.

One of the purposes of my comment is to demonstrate that allowing the Supreme Court to make up "constitutional law" as it goes along is a bad idea. Judicial tyranny is no better than any other kind.
 
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