Identify an accurate statement about voting rights in the history of American politics.

Question

A. Literary tests were tactics used by the state to encourage African Americans to vote.
B. The grandfather clause was a technique used to disenfranchise black voters.
C. The Sixteenth Amendment explicitly denied African Americans the right to vote.
D. Thewhite primary lawprevented whites from voting in Democratic primary elections.
E. Thepoll taxlimited voting to those whose ancestors could vote after the Civil War.

Answer 1

Answer: B