According to the Fifteenth Amendment, citizens were not supposed to be restricted from voting based on their race or previous
status as slaves. In spite of this federal law, southern states passed their own laws aimed at preventing African Americans from
voting. First, poll taxes and literacy tests were required in order to vote. Later, states began passing "grandfather clauses," which
stated that people who could not pass the literacy test or pay the poll tax could vote if they, their fathers, or grandfathers had been
allowed to vote on or before January 1, 1867. Why were grandfather clauses enacted?
A.
Southerners realized that literacy tests and poll taxes were unfair for poor people
B. African Americans advocated the use of grandfather clauses.
C.
The use of literacy tests and poll taxes had prevented whites from voting.
D. Grandfather clauses were a fair way to decide who had the right to vote.

Southerners realized that literacy tests and poll taxes were unfair for poor people.

Explanation: The grandfather clause made it so no African-American could vote because there grandfathers couldn’t before them. Southerners realized they were keeping other Whites from voting by putting pull taxes and literacy test.

the berlin blockade was an international crisis that arose from an attempt by the soviet union, in 1948–49, to force the western allied powers (the united states, the united kingdom, and france) to abandon their post-world war ii jurisdictions in west berlin. in march 1948 the allied powers decided to unite their different occupation zones of germany into a single economic unit. in protest, the soviet representative withdrew from the allied control council. coincident with the introduction of a new deutsche mark in west berlin (as throughout west germany), which the soviets regarded as a violation of agreements with the allies, the soviet occupation forces in eastern germany began a blockade of all rail, road, and water communications between berlin and the west. on june 24 the soviets announced that the four-power administration of berlin had ceased and that the allies no longer had any rights there.

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