the 14 amendment
ensured that blacks would be considered citizens.
The Fifteenth Amendment prohibits the denial of voting rights on the basis of color or national origin. Along with the 14th Amendment (granted citizenship, prohibited slavery), it allowed African-American males to vote.
because if it wasn't for the amendment the votes wouldn't count fully because of the discrimination of people
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 US Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case decision of 1857 contains the 50 pages opinion of Chief Justice Taney. In the document he states that Blacks cannot be citizens because they are Blacks and that slavery was constitutional. The latter was the fault of the Framers of the US Constitution who allowed it in order for the slave states to ratify the constitution.
14- Granted blacks citizenship 15- Allowed blacks to vote
It ensured that blacks would be considered citizens.
ensured that blacks would be considered citizens.
The 14th amendment.
in 1920 gave women the right to vote
What happened firstLincoln killed (1865)Johnson impeached (1868)Blacks granted suffrage (1870-- 15th amendment)
Andrew Johnson was the President when this 14th amendment was ratified.
The Voting Rights Act, signed in 1965, overcame the barriers that prevented blacks from voting. The 15th Amendment to the US Constitution denied federal and state governments from preventing citizens from voting but did not go far enough.
In 1866, the amendment was passed and gave blacks the right of citizenship in America. This affected the blacks because they are finally...the fourteen amendment did was made everyone citizens regardless of race .
admendment 14
The Fifteenth Amendment prohibits the denial of voting rights on the basis of color or national origin. Along with the 14th Amendment (granted citizenship, prohibited slavery), it allowed African-American males to vote.
The fourteenth amendment (ratified 7/9/1868) --Guarantees rights of citizenship to all persons born in the United States.