What are grandfather clauses? Why were they enacted?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: An ideal response will:
1. Define grandfather clauses as provisions that allowed Southerners to vote even if they could not afford the poll tax or pass the literacy test, as long as the voters' grandfathers could vote before Reconstruction.
2. Note that grandfather clauses were passed because poll taxes and literacy tests were disenfranchising too many poor, illiterate whites, while the real aim was to disenfranchise African Americans. Grandfather clauses minimized the number of whites who were disenfranchised.
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