In order to prevent literacy tests from discouraging white voters, an exemption known as the ________ was put in place.

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The grandfather clause was an exemption used to prevent literacy tests from discouraging white voters by allowing those who had a grandfather who could vote before the Civil War, or by some other specified date, to bypass literacy tests and other voting barriers. This effectively disenfranchised many African-American and poor white voters who could not meet the literacy and property requirements set forth by state laws.

In Order to Prevent Literacy Tests from Discouraging White Voters