Grandfather laws established that
A. African Americans could only vote if they could prove that they had been in the United States for at least two generations.
B. only African Americans above age fifty could vote.
C. men could vote if they met certain property qualifications.
D. certain levels of property holdings could exempt a potential voter from a literacy test.
E. men who could not meet the literacy and property qualifications could vote if their ancestors had voted before Reconstruction began.
Answer: E
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