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What were poll taxes?
Poll taxes were taxes that had to be paid by registered voters. The courts decided it was illegal as the poorer people could not afford it and this prevented them from voting. Blacks could generally...
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What is literacy tax and poll tax?
A poll tax was an amount of money that a person was forced to pay in order to vote. After the Civil War in the South, poll tax laws were created in order to prevent freed slaves from voting
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A poll tax is a tax on?
In U.S. practice, a poll tax was a tax on the act of voting in an election and had to be paid before a citizen could cast a ballot.
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A poll tax is a tax?
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A poll tax is a tax on what?
Depends. In the UK, a poll tax is a tax that affected everyone equally, regardless of wealth or property. Such taxes have existed previously in historical times. More famously, Margaret Thatcher's...