Which amendment prohibited poll taxes?

Which amendment prohibited poll taxes?

• A. Twenty-first Amendment
• B. Twenty-second Amendment
• C. Twenty-fourth Amendment
• D. Nineteenth Amendment

Answer: (C)

Poll taxes kept many people from voting by making participation depend on paying a fee. The amendment that bans this practice was ratified in 1964, making it illegal to require a poll tax to vote in federal elections. This removal of the wealth barrier helped expand access to the ballot, and later court decisions extended the protection to state elections as well. The other amendments mentioned address Prohibition, presidential term limits, and women’s suffrage, not voting tax requirements.

Poll taxes kept many people from voting by making participation depend on paying a fee. The amendment that bans this practice was ratified in 1964, making it illegal to require a poll tax to vote in federal elections. This removal of the wealth barrier helped expand access to the ballot, and later court decisions extended the protection to state elections as well. The other amendments mentioned address Prohibition, presidential term limits, and women’s suffrage, not voting tax requirements.