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An exemption to such requirements was made for all persons allowed to vote before the American Civil War, and any of their descendants. The term grandfather clause arose from the fact that the laws tied the then-current generation's voting rights to those of their grandfathers.

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The Grandfather Clause was another excuse to keep African Americans from voting. Because most African Americans had never voted before, African Americans who were of age to vote could not because their Grandfathers didn’t.