Question

Despite the Fifteenth Amendment, Southern states prevented African-Americans from voting by all of the following means EXCEPT:

• A. Literacy tests.
• B. Poll taxes.
• C. Intimidation.
• D. Requiring property ownership.
• E. Grandfather clauses.

Answer 1

The correct option is A Literacy tests.

Literacy tests, along with poll taxes, residency and property restrictions, and extra-legal activities (violence and intimidation) were all used to deny suffrage to African Americans. The first formal voter literacy tests were introduced in 1890. Despite the Fifteenth Amendment, Southern states prevented African-Americans from voting by all of the reasons except option A.

The correct answer is A.