E. Establishing poll taxes and literacy tests.
Explanation:
The Southern states did not want the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, as they did not want African Americans to vote. They believed that if blacks were able to vote, they would vote for people in power that would better the lives of African Americans, which many white Southerners did not want.
When African American males finally got the right to vote, it angered a lot of the Southern colonists. They did not want them to vote for certain people in power and felt as if blacks were inferior to them, so they should not be able to vote. When the Fifteenth Amendment got ratified, the Southerners had to come up with other ideas to prevent blacks from voting.
One of these ideas was poll taxes. This meant that African Americans had to pay a tax if they were going to vote. This made it so many blacks could not vote, as they often didn't have jobs, and even if they did, they were not being paid as much as whites. Another way that Southerners tried to prevent African Americans from voting was literacy tests. Most of the time, African Americans could not receive a proper education, so when literacy tests were put onto the polls, many could not pass.
