Which kept african americans from nominating candidates for office? poll taxes literacy tests white primaries grandfather clauses

Grandfather clauses.

Explanation:

Grandfather clauses were statutory devices established in seven Southern states in 1895 and up to 1910. Their goal was to withhold suffrage from African Americans. These clauses instituted that only those who had the right to vote before 1866, as well as their descendants, were exempted from taxes requirements for voting.

Since former slaves were granted the franchise with the Fifteenth Amendment of 1870, grandfather clauses exclude them from the vote and were only beneficial to impoverish and illiterate white people.

swe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. — that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. "

- declaration of independence

  according to this passage from the declaration of independence, who gives government the power to exist?

a) the king

b) the people

c) their creator

d) their governmenthook

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