Meaning poll tax
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poll taxtax levied on all voters, often serving as a financial obstacle to poor citizens.
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poll taxOne of two legal strategies used by Southerners to keep black people and poor whites from voting. (See literacy tests.) When a person registered to vote, he or she became eligible to pay a local poll [..]
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poll taxA tax of a fixed amount required of all persons in a group, regardless of their personal assets. A person subject to such a tax is tithable (qualified to be taxed). The tax is also called a head tax.
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poll taxA tax paid to be eligible to vote.
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poll taxImpuesto sobre el Sufragio, Impuesto de Votación
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poll taxmoney that must be paid in order to vote. There used to be poll taxes in some places in the USA; this tax kept many poor people from voting since they could not afford to pay the tax. The 24th Amendment to the Constitution (ratified in 1964) made poll taxes illegal.
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poll taxa tax of a fixed amount per person levied on adults
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poll taxA poll tax is a uniformed tax levied on every adult in the community. Poll taxes have their roots in ancient tax systems and have been criticized as an unfair burden on the poor. Historically, in the [..]
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poll taxcapitagium
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poll taxThe English poll taxes of 1377, 1379 and 1381 taxed householders, wives, dependants and servants individually. The tax records therefore provide information about people who are rarely, if ever, menti [..]
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