16. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 16: Labor and Race in the New South

**Quiz for Document 16.4: Mississippi Constitution (1890)**

Quiz for Document 16.4: Mississippi Constitution (1890)

Select the best answer for each question. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

1. The Mississippi Constitution stipulated that men between the ages of twenty-one and sixty were required to pay a tax in order to

vote.

send his children to school.

serve on a jury.

get married.

2. According to the Mississippi Constitution, the poll tax was to be “a lien only upon taxable property.” What does this mean?

Only Mississippi voters who owned property had to pay the tax.

Only Mississippi voters who owned or leased property had to pay the tax.

Mississippi voters who owned property could borrow against it to pay the tax.

Mississippi voters who owned property were not required to pay the tax.

3. Sections 243, 244, and 264 of the Mississippi Constitution were intended to do which of the following?

Limit African Americans’ legal and political power

Prevent African Americans from mixing with whites

Ensure that education and public accommodations were separate but equal

Compel the African American population to learn to read and write

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