Answer:
African Americans were freely accepted at the polls for the time.
Explanation:
Many states found ways around the 15th Amendment, especially in the South. They required anyone who had not voted before 1866 or who was not descended from someone who had voted before 1866 to pass literacy, educational, and “good character” tests. They also levied high poll taxes. Polling places were placed far away from black communities, to make it difficult to get to them. All these obstructions kept most black men from voting.
