Following the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, states attempted to limit voting rights of African Americans through

The Fifteenth Amendment prohibited denying a man the right to vote because of race, but states used other barriers to keep African Americans from voting. Poll taxes required voters to pay a fee, and literacy tests were used to block people from registering. These were common forms of voter suppression, so the correct choice is poll taxes and literacy tests.

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