How did the enactment of poll taxes and literacy tests impact african americans?
a. it created barriers to voting.
b. it segregated public facilities.
c. it blocked access to educational opportunities.
d. it limited employment options.

Enactment of poll taxes and literacy tests on African Americans was to create voting barriers.

Explanation:

Southern state legislatures mostly employed literacy tests  as part of the voting procedure in order to stop African american from voting. As slavery was well prevalent inn southern states, many slave labors were illiterates and they could not read and write. This was an added advantage to stop them  from voting as they were discriminated on the base of race and ethnicity.

Poll taxes were also inflicted on African Americans in order to not  provide them with suffrage and enfranchisement rights. They were not granted citizenship and they were segregated everywhere which is the worst part inn the American history.

president thomas jefferson hoped that the embargo act of 1807 would the united states by demonstrating to britain and france their dependence on american goods, convincing them to respect american neutrality and stop impressing american seamen. instead, the act had a devastating effect on american trade.

b.lincoln had the victory he wanted for emancipation