In 1870, many black americans were poor and illiterate. many southern states required voters to pay a poll tax and/or pass literacy test before voting. as a result, many blacks were not allowed to vote. did states with policies like these violate the 15th amendment? or why not?

States that required literacy tests and or pay poll tax did not violate the fifteenth Amendment, as this amendment established that voters should not be discriminated by race or color. It did not say anything about their literacy or economic level.   The truth is that they used tax payment and writing tests in order to leave African American men out of the polls without violating the Amendment.

It was not until the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that literacy tests  were banned and therefore the African American men could vote.

Explanation:

- "made the south's economy grow rapidly and a small effect that a lot of people don't know is that it made the more demand of slaves and cotton products. and also new states formed due to plantations growing in size."

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