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The Disenfranchisement of African Americans - Exit Quiz
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How did the 'Eight Box Law' and the 'Poll Tax' specifically function together to circumvent the 15th Amendment in South Carolina?
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They mandated that only citizens whose grandfathers had voted before 1867 were eligible to participate in state elections.
They created complex procedural and financial barriers that targeted literacy and poverty without explicitly mentioning race.
They required all voters to pass a high-level constitutional interpretation test administered by the Governor.
They officially banned African Americans from joining the Democratic Party to prevent them from voting in the primaries.
Q 2/10
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The Eight Box Law and the poll tax were specifically designed to circumvent the 15th Amendment by creating indirect barriers to voting that did not explicitly mention race.
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How did the 'Eight Box Law' and the 'Poll Tax' specifically function together to circumvent the 15th Amendment in South Carolina?
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The Eight Box Law and the poll tax were specifically designed to circumvent the 15th Amendment by creating indirect barriers to voting that did not explicitly mention race.
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Which specific South Carolina law, passed in 1882, required voters to place their ballots in one of eight separate boxes to prove they could read, effectively disenfranchising illiterate African American voters?
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Match the specific method of disenfranchisement used in South Carolina after Reconstruction with its intended impact on African American voters.
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Place the following events and policies in the correct chronological order to show how the 'Redeemers' systematically dismantled African American political power in South Carolina during the late 19th century.
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Sort each item into the correct category based on the methods used to limit the political power of African Americans in South Carolina during the late 19th century.
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Arrange the historical progression of legal and political actions used to systematically remove the voting rights of African Americans in South Carolina during the late 19th century.
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Unscramble the letters to identify the specific tax used in South Carolina to prevent African Americans from voting during the late 1800s.
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Following the 1895 South Carolina Constitutional Convention, which two methods were specifically designed to circumvent the 15th Amendment and disenfranchise African American voters while allowing poor, illiterate whites to maintain their voting rights?
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Following the 1895 South Carolina Constitutional Convention, how did the state government effectively circumvent the 15th Amendment to ensure white supremacy in the political process?
