Answer: 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.
