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it gave african americans the right to vote by getting rid of the grandfather clauses and the literacy tests which blocked them from voting
The 15th amendment granted every citizen the right to vote. This right was abridged by imposing poll taxes blacks often couldn't afford and requiring "literacy" tests which were rigged to prevent blacks from passing while whites were exempted from the tests.
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibited the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. The reason that the 15th Amendment, passed in 1870, was partially unsuccessful was mostly Southern states failed to enforce it.
The 15th Amendment, passed after the Civil War in 1870, prohibits the government ... Did you know? ... In the ensuing decades, various discriminatory practices including poll taxes and literacy tests—along with Jim Crow laws, ... of the non-white population had not registered to vote and authorized the U.S. .
the african america who born in united states want the rigt to vote and equal rigts.
The 15th amendment enabled blacks to vote.
Laws like polling taxes, literacy tests, and many other new laws that were enacted after the 15th amendment were meant (in certain areas) to keep African Americans in subjection, and unable to change laws or affect the country. People were jailed for spurious reasons, then hired out from the jails to work land, and of course people were threatened, tortured, and killed.
it was the 15th amendment
A grandfather clause was added to the Louisiana constitution in 1895; Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Virginia soon added them as well. These clauses stated that any man, or his male descendants, who had voted in the State before the adoption of the 15th Amendment (1870) could become a legal voter without regard to any literacy or taxpaying qualifications.
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The Fifteenth Amendment eliminated race as a restriction on voting.
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