This payment was meant to keep certain groups of people (mainly former slaves and african-americans) from being allowed to vote.

It was the poll tax. That is so simple. They had many ways they couldn't vote because of the economy. One was the grandfather clause. One was poll tax. One was literacy test. I don't remember the last one. Hope I helped.

Hamlet's fourth soliloquy is probably his most famous one - "to be or not to be."it is rather different from his previous soliloquies because now he is contemplating something that didn't come up before - suicide. he is thinking whether it is worth it to fight to find his father's murderer when in the end all of them are going to die, so why not die sooner than later. he is contemplating if he should go on fighting or just kill himself and end it all, which is why this soliloquy in particular is rather depressing, hesitant, and gives a deeper insight into hamlet's madness.