Southern states resisted the ratification of the fifteenth amendment by

The options of the question are A) drafting and passing the Voting Rights Act. B) denying female citizens the right to vote. C) appointing new officials to monitor elections. D) establishing poll taxes and literacy test.  

The correct answer is D) establishing poll taxes and literacy test.

Southern states resisted the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment by establishing poll taxes and literacy test.

On February 26, 1869, the Congress passed the Fifteenth Amendment but Southern states resisted the ratification. What Congress did was to demand the southern states that had been accepted by the Union to accept the Fifteenth Amendment. The Amendment granted citizenship and rights to all people, not only whites.  

d: their own individual powers within the new goverment