Literacy tests were used to
A. finance election campaigns.
B. ensure that the people who voted would take the vote seriously.
C. ensure that women voted with their husbands, who legally controlled the money in a marriage.
D. help subsidize public education in the North.
E. disenfranchise African Americans in the South.
Answer: E
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