In order to keep minority group members from voting,majority group members passed laws that stipulated that a person was not eligible to vote unless their grandfather had voted.What is this practice called?

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The practice described is known as the grandfather clause, which was used to disenfranchise African American voters in the late 1800s and early 1900s. This clause exempted individuals from voting requirements if their grandfather had been a registered voter, effectively allowing white voters to continue to participate while preventing black voters from doing so, since their grandfathers would not have been eligible to vote due to earlier discriminatory laws. Gerrymandering involves the manipulation of voting district boundaries for political gain, poll taxing involves requiring a fee to vote, and literacy testing involves requiring individuals to pass a reading or writing test in order to vote.

In Order to Keep Minority Group Members from Voting,majority Group