1) poll tax. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...poll tax, a capital tax levied equally on every adult in the community. Although no longer a significant source of revenue for any major country, the poll tax did...
2) poll tax. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
...poll tax A tax required as a qualification for voting. After the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution extended the vote to blacks in 1870, many southern states...
3) poll tax. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...A tax levied on people rather than on property, often as a requirement for voting....
4) 1864. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...1864 Tribal rebellion and suspension of the constitution. In 1864 the poll tax (majba) was doubled to meet the government's increasing foreign debt, triggering a...
5) Nose Tax (The). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...In the ninth century the Danes imposed on Irish houses a poll tax, historically called the "Nose Tax," because those who neglected to pay the ounce of gold were punished...
6) 59364. Thoreau, Henry David. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:59364 QUOTATION:I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of...
7) 10451. Appendix. Bartlett, John, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
...AUTHOR: Appendix QUOTATION: Paying through the nose. ATTRIBUTION: Grimm says that Odin had a poll-tax which was called in Sweden a nose-tax; it was a penny per nose,...
8) 1922, March. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...and exiled to the coast, causing a riot in Nairobi in which 20 Africans died. 1 1923 Poll tax introduced in Tanganyika. 2 Kavirondo Tax Payers Welfare Association...
9) capitation. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...1. A poll tax. 2. A payment or fee of a fixed amount per person. Late Latin capittio, capittion-, from Latin caput, capit-, head. See kaput- in Appendix I.capiˇtative...
10) 1990, March-April. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...1990, March-April The unpopular community charge (poll tax) replaced property taxes ("rates") in England and Wales, beginning April 1, leading to protests and riots....
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