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If you're talking about the 19th amendment, it's because black (men) already had it.
If you're talking about the 15th amendment, it explicitly forbid discrimination based on race at the polls. However, just because it was forbidden doesn't mean it didn't happen.
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∙ 9y agoThe 14th and 15th amendments excluded black women from suffrage because women did not have equal rights at that time.
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How the Ninetenth Amendment expand suffrage?
it was the amendment that gave women the right to vote
When the 19th amendment was ratified what did the amendment accomplish?
This was known as the Women's Suffrage Amendment, and it gave women the right to vote in America.
What amendment women get the rights to vote?
they get the right to vote in the women's suffrage amendment. Amendment # 19. _Carlotea F.
The 15th amendment enabled blacks to?
The 15th amendment enabled blacks to vote.
What type of amendment defines a citizen's right to vote?
suffrage amendment
What is another name for the right to vote?
"The Great Amendment" Suffrage
Women were granted the right to vote by which amendment?
The 19th Amendment gave women suffrage, or, the legal right to vote.
Was did women gain from 19th amendment?
Suffrage, or the right to vote.
What was another name for 19th amendment?
The Women's Suffrage Amendment
How did women who worked for suffrage win the vote?
Women who worked for suffrage won the vote by having Congress petitioned. This is what led to the creation of the 19th Amendment.
What did the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution do?
in 1920 gave women the right to vote
Which amendments deal with suffrage?
19th Amendment: Women won the right to vote in 1920. Was thought that if woman were able to vote, that they would vote for the war, so they were given the right to vote. The amendment resulted from activities from the women's suffrage movement; which the women's suffrage came from WW1. 15th amdendment: This amdendment established the southern black's their rights to vote. The time of the civil war. Blacks in most northern states had won their right to vote. 26th Amendment: In 1971 during the Vietnam War...It was ratified, lowering the voting age from 21 down to 18. It was in hopes that the right to vote would channel the disruptive protest activities of students involved in the anti-vietnam war movement to peaceful participants at the ballot box.
