The 19th Amendment is the amendment that guarantees suffrage.
The fifteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution assured the right of U.S. citizens to vote, regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
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Slavery -- It guaranteed the permanent abolition of involuntary servitude in the United States.
The 13th amendment officially rendered slavery and involuntary servitude unconstitutional, and the 15th amendment prohibited the national government and the state governments from denying the vote based on "race, color, or previous condition of involuntary servitude."
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the fifteenth amendment
The 15th Amendment gave African Americans the right to vote, which would be included in "race, color, or previous servitude".
The Fifteenth Amendment guaranteed the right to vote to all male citizens regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude. Ratified in 1870, it was the last of the Reconstruction amendments to the Constitution. However, between 1890 to 1910, southern legislatures blocked the Fifteenth Amendment by a series of obstacles including poll taxes, literacy tests and whites only primaries to disenfranchise black male voters.
The promulgation of the Fourteenth Amendment, that was effectively a bill of rights, guaranteed in 1866 the new black citizens their political and legal equality. In 1869 the Congress passed the Fifteenth Amendment which stated that citizens' rights were not to be limited by "race, color or previous condition of servitude".
After the 15th Amendment was passed, all citizens, irrespective of their race, color or previous condition of servitude, could vote.
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15th amendment