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Southern Democrats did all the following to bar likely Republican voters from the polls except:

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Threatened them with violence
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Charged a poll tax they could not afford
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Made them take a literacy test they were likely to fail
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Shot them to death
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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.

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