At the end of Reconstruction, Southern whites disenfranchised African Americans with
a. literacy requirements and poll taxes.
b. state laws mandating whites-only voting.
c. federal approval.
d. the promise that forfeiting the vote would bring more equal treatment in other areas.
e. fraudulent contracts that tricked individual blacks into signing away their voting rights.
a
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