The 15th amendment was passed by Congress February 26, 1869. The amendment was ratified February 3, 1870 and states that:
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.
They added somthing called the civil war amendments. 13, 14, 15 were added to the constitution
13th amendment abolished slavery
14th amendment granted ful citizenship to African Americans
15th guaranteed the right to vote to men regardless their race, color or previous conditions also because they are no different to us so they are allowed
There has been discrimaination, much of it, in who has & has not had the rights to vote in UK, but it has never at anytime been based on anyones skin colour. So if you had a vote it has never been based on whether or not you are not white.
Suffragettes alone weren't allowed to vote, all women could not vote. Suffragettes were only women who were protesting the lack of the right to vote.
Citizens of England were allowed to vote in the 18th century.
Back when men were only allowed to vote, it was common belief (at the time) that women could not and are not as smart as a man was. So, if a woman was allowed to vote, it was thought that she wasn't smart enough to make an educated decision, and is overall too 'stupid' to vote. This is clearly proven wrong today, but it was a common belief that women weren't smart.
A person who had the right to vote in an election
14- Granted blacks citizenship 15- Allowed blacks to vote
blacks not to vote in democratic primaries
North Carolina
hawaii
They couldn't vote if their grandfather hadn't voted.
The new constitution of Costa Rica passed in 1949 giving women and blacks the right to vote.
I believe it was blacks.
laws were made so that blacks and whites could come together and go to the same school and could do things togetherb
women, anyone poor, and of course children
No, because blacks were segregated at that time so blacks couldn't vote.
In the United States, African Americans were not effectively guaranteed the right to vote until 1965. Although in some places, blacks were allowed to vote long before the passage of the Voting Rights Act; and during one period (immediately after the Civil War), blacks were allowed to vote even in the deep South.
No, they were given the right to vote. ...they were legally allowed to vote but in the south some of the polls would throw their vote away if they were black.