Question

select all the correct answers.
in what two ways did southern states keep african americans from voting without violating the fifteenth amendment?

by requiring voters to pay poll taxes

by setting up lynching stations around the polls

by creating laws to socially separate races

by requiring voters to live in the state in which they vote

by requiring voters to pass literacy tests

Explanation:

1. The Fifteenth Amendment prohibits denying the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Poll taxes (requiring voters to pay poll taxes) were used as a financial barrier, as African Americans were often economically disadvantaged. Literacy tests (requiring voters to pass literacy tests) were used as an educational barrier, as African Americans were often denied education and these tests were administered unfairly.
2. Setting up lynching stations is violent intimidation, not a legal loophole. Laws to socially separate races (Jim Crow laws) were about segregation, not directly voting rights suppression in a way to bypass the Fifteenth Amendment for voting. Requiring voters to live in the state is a standard voting requirement, not a discriminatory one to suppress African American votes.

Answer:

A. by requiring voters to pay poll taxes
E. by requiring voters to pass literacy tests