Mainly as a way of preventing poor people- especially newly freed blacks in the South after the Civil War- from voting. If you're poor and have little/no money, you're not going to want to spend that money to pay a special tax just to be able to vote.
The 24th amendment prohibited poll taxes
The Twenty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution made poll taxes illegal. =)
Yes, poll taxes are illegal in all government elections.
24th amendment
A poll tax was an amount of money that a person was forced to pay in order to vote. After the Civil War in the South, poll tax laws were created in order to prevent freed slaves from voting, as they did not have much money. They were, of course, eventually abolished.
The Poll Taxes were created by act of various state legislatures.
The 24th amendment prohibited poll taxes
Low income citizens cannot afford to pay the poll taxes. If they don't pay poll taxes, they can't vote. Incidentally, poll taxes have been outlawed in the United States.
by eliminating poll taxes
Poll Taxes
The Twenty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution made poll taxes illegal. =)
by poll taxes, made them pass literacy test, and the Grandfather clause. :)
Yes, poll taxes are illegal in all government elections.
poll taxes and literacy tests
The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution bars the use of poll taxes. This makes it illegal in all states to use poll taxes and the non-payment of such taxes to keep anyone from voting. The amendment therefore stops any and all use of poll taxes.
A poll tax is illegal because it prevents minorities from voting.
The Twenty-fourth Amendment (Amendment XXIV) prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.