Southern Democrats did all the following to bar likely Republican voters from the polls except:
A
Threatened them with violence
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B
Charged a poll tax they could not afford
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C
Made them take a literacy test they were likely to fail
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D
Shot them to death
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E
Passed laws that denied them the right to vote
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Solution
The correct option is E Passed laws that denied them the right to vote The Fifteenth Amendment guarantees African
Americans the constitutional right to vote. No state or local
legislature could pass a law denying that right; no such law would have
stood the test of a lawsuit.