extent to which you believe poll taxes and literacy tests undermined the civil rights of African Americans in the early 1900’s.

The government of an area needs to support an initiative for the initiative to be able to succeed. If the government does not support the initiative or if it sees it as a threat, the initiative simply cannot prosper.

This was the same with the Civil rights movements for African Americans in the early 1900s, it did not have the support of Southern governments as these governments were not sympathetic to the plight of African Americans.

If a government is not supporting a noble initiative, the people can remove the government but in this case, African Americans could not move these governments because they were restricted from voting by the poll taxes and literacy tests.

They therefore could not put in a government that would support civil rights but were instead stuck with a government that actively opposed it and could not be removed because those poll taxes and literacy tests protected them from those that they were oppressing.

Poll taxes and literacy tests therefore went a long way in undermining the Civil rights movement.

depends on the age of the teen, many believe by the age of 16 a person should know the strong difference between right and wrong along with the difference between risky and immediate death. swimming with sharks might be dangerous but swimming with sharks while bloody meat is attached to you is just insane. even more if you have no idea what you're doing. however, no matter the age, as long as the person is skilled enough and has the mental and physical capacity to control their actions doing whatever sport they put their mind to is all that matters.