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The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits all governments in the United States (Federal, State, City, Municipal) to deny any man from voting in any election based on race or servitude. The amendment was ratified February 3, 1870. This was one of the Reconstruction amendment. Women were not provided the right until 1920.
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∙ 13y ago"
Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
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∙ 9y agoThe Fifteenth Amendment is one of the Reconstruction Amendments. It prohibits each government in the US from denying a citizen the right to vote based on the citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was made into law on February 3, 1870.
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∙ 12y agoThe right for black men and poor white men to vote.
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∙ 12y agoThe 15th amendment guarantees all citizens of the US the right to vote regardless of race or previous condition of servitude. As long as you were a male citizen that is.
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∙ 15y agovoting rights of former slaves. Black men
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∙ 14y agovoting rights of former slaves.
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Was the Fifteenth Amendment ratified during the Civil War?
No
Which amendment made African Americans citizens?
All African Americans became citizens as a result of the 14th Amendment.
Which amendment banned suffrage restrictions based on race?
The Fifteenth Amendment eliminated race as a restriction on voting.
This law granted full citizenship to African Americans?
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment.
What legal right is the fifteenth amendment and for what group of people?
The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits 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." It was ratified on February 3, 1870, as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
What does the fifthteen amendment guarantee?
What does the fifteenth amendment guarantee
Which amendment Prohibits the government from denying a person right to vote on the basis of race?
The fifteenth amendment of the Constitution.
What is a sentence with the words fifteenth amendment in it?
The fifteenth Amendment is in the history book
Is fifteenth capitalized?
no, unless its the Fifteenth Amendment.
What was the purpose of the Fifteenth Amendment to the US Constitution?
The purpose of the 15th Amendment was to stop the states from denying anyone the right to vote because of race or color or because the person had once been a slave.
What made the election of hundreds of African American leaders to local state and Congressional offices possible during the 1870s?
The passage of the Fifteenth Amendment
What year was the Fifteenth Amendment passed in?
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed on February 3, 1870.
What was the main point of the Fifteenth Amendment?
to guarantee political and legal rights for former slaves
What amendment to the US constitution provided for the right to vote regardless of race?
The fifteenth amendment of the Declaration of Independence declared that people of color had the right to vote.
What is taken from your because of the fifteenth amendment?
Nothing!
What does the fifteenth amendment do for America?
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When did the 15 amendment pass?
The fifteenth amendment was ratified on February 3, 1870.
