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There was a poll tax that many African Americans and poor white Americans could not pay and therefore were not able to vote.
After the Reconstruction was over many laws were passed by the Southern states to limit the liberty once given to the African Americans.
One of the limitations the Black Codes imposed were limitations to the right to vote. Some voting requirements for African Americans was the literacy tests, poll taxes and elaborate registration systems that made sure African Americans were excluded. This system of segregation was known as Jim Crow because this was the name of an infamous African American character in the 1830s.