12. How did many Southern states work around the voting rights guaranteed in the Fifteenth
Amendment?
A. Poll taxes prevented poor citizens from being able to vote.
B. Grandfather clauses gave citizens the right to vote if their grandfathers had been able to vote
in elections prior to Reconstruction.
C. Literacy tests were put into place requiring citizens to read difficult passages from legal
documents in order to be able to vote.
D. all of the above