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What is the fiveteenth amendment?
The fifteenth amendment is about voting. It prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote.
The Constitutional amendment that prohibited denying voting rights to people based on race or color?
The 15th Amendment of the Constitution prohibits denying voting rights to people based on race or color
What was a constitutional provision that forbade any state from denying suffrage on the basis of race color or condition of servitude?
the 15th amendment
What was a constitutional provision that forbade any state from denying suffrage on the basis of race color or previous condition of servitude?
the 15th amendment
Was a constitutional provision that forbade any state from denying suffrage on the basis of Race Color or Previous condition of servitude?
the 15th amendment
Which amendment requires that every state grant its citizens equal protection of the laws?
The 14th amendment prevents states from denying any citizen equal protection under the law. No state may pass a law which would abridge the rights granted US citizens by the Constitution.
What is the the title of the 26 amendment?
The 26th Amendment to the United States Constitution is titled "Voting Age Qualification." It was ratified on July 1, 1971, and it prohibits the federal and state governments from denying citizens who are 18 years of age or older the right to vote based on age.
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.
Which amendment Prohibits the government from denying a person right to vote on the basis of race?
The fifteenth amendment of the Constitution.
How did the 15 amendment extend suffrage in the US?
The 15th Amendment, ratified in 1870, extended suffrage by prohibiting the federal and state governments from denying the right to vote based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." This constitutional change aimed to enfranchise African American men following the Civil War, ensuring legal protection for their voting rights. However, despite its passage, various discriminatory practices like literacy tests and poll taxes were employed to circumvent the amendment, effectively limiting access to the ballot for many.
What amendment allowed excluded groups to vote?
Voting rights have not been established in one amendment. The number of amendments illustrate tendency by people in power to block voting rights. 1870: 15th amendment prohibits governments from "denying a citizen the right to vote based on color race, or previous condition of servitude." 1920: 19th amendment prohibits governments from 'denying a citizen the right to vote based on sex.' 1964: 24th amendment prohibits a poll tax or other type of tax be required before having the right to vote. 1971: 26th amendment minimum voting age to no more than 18 years of age. This amendment limited rights to vote, and was passed after colleg-age people protested the Vietnam war and practically brought the government down. Unratified 1985: Right of District of Columbia (home of congress) to elect representatives
How did the fourteenth and fifteenth amendment improve the lives of African Americans?
the 14th amendment gave african american a citizenship and the 15th amendment it banned states from denying the vote to african americans
