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Southerners easily got around the 20th and 15th amendments. Since the 14th and 15th amendments weren’t as strictly enforced, it made it easier for the Southerners to get around those amendments. The Poll taxes, Literacy Tests and the Grandfather Clause are all ways that the southerners got around the 15th amendment, which forbade any state from denying African Americans the right to vote because of their race. The Poll taxes would make it hard for most African Americans to vote because it was mandatory to pay a fee, which most couldn’t afford. Literacy tests were made more difficult for African American’s than for the whites, and the Grandfather Clause says if your Grandfather could vote before 1867 then you could vote, but African American’s just recently received the right to vote after that date. The Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws are ways the Southerners got around the 17th amendment, which guaranteed all citizens life, liberty, and property which cannot be taken away without due process o

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