Some communities levied, or charged, poll taxes, or enforced literacy requirements or imposed other restrictions that made it difficult or impossible for black people to register and vote. What is the meaning of levied as it is used in this sentence?

established and carried out rules

stopped someone from doing something

rewarded someone for participating

demanded and collected payment

demanded and collected payment

Explanation:

In this context, levied refers to the segregationist Southern States in the United States demanding and collecting payments known as poll taxes before allowing people to vote in the period after the American Civil War.

They did this so that the newly emancipated African Americans would be unable to vote. Poor white people were spared these taxes by the ''Grandfather Clause'' which exempted anyone whose grandfather had voted at least once from paying the taxes.

Manifest Destiny and the propaganda that came with it, The American people were told that it was "their god given right" to expand the United States, and that it should be from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans.