The 15th Amendment to the Constitution dealt specifically with the right to vote. It stated that a man couldn't be kept from voting based on the color of his skin or the fact that he was formerly a slave.
Several groups were not happy with the way the 15th amendment was written. Representatives from southern states (those that had previously been slave-owning states, such as Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi) were especially upset because this amendment gave black men the right to vote; these southern states became determined to delay or stop the amendment. Feminists were also upset because women were not included: black men were granted suffrage, but the right to vote was still denied to women.
The Southerners, because they didn't want black people to vote and the 15th Amendment allowed people of all colors and races to vote and denying this right was not allowed, which angered them (the Southerners).
To pass an amendment to the US Constitution requires the support of the majority of states, citizens, and Federal office holders. People in favor of guaranteeing people the right to vote are called fair minded people. The opposition came from people opposed to equality.
Freedmen were dissappointed by the 15th amendment.
African Americans and Radical Republicans
The 15th amendment enabled blacks to vote.
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The Fifteenth Amendment eliminated race as a restriction on voting.
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Women were not included in the 15th amendment. Back then women did not have as much right as men.
The 15th amendment guarantee's the right to vote without restrictions based on..for an example race.
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amendment 15 amendment 15 While the 15th Amendment is what prohibited the states from using race as a means to deny the right to vote. The times being what they were, though, in no way did the 15th create equal - or even open - access to voting. Poll taxes were one of the major ways local governments disenfranchised minorities and the poor; poll taxes were made illegal by the 24th Amendment. Therefore, it was actually a combination of the 15th and 24th Amendments that franchised black citizens.
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