The Fifteenth Amendment eliminated race as a restriction on voting.
The amendment was written in Congress like all the other amendments.
The federal Government did not intervene to uphold the amendment.
The 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution was proposed in Congress on 26 February 1869 in the last days of the presidency of Andrew Johnson (17th President, Democrat, 15 April 1865 - 4 March 1869) and ratified on 3 February 1870 under the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant (18th President, Republican, 4 March 1869 - 4 March 1877).
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The 15th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States which prohibits the government of the United States from denying the right to vote based on someones race, color or previous condition of servitude was signed on February 3, 1870.
The 15th amendment enabled blacks to vote.
it was the 15th amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment eliminated race as a restriction on voting.
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Women were not included in the 15th amendment. Back then women did not have as much right as men.
The 15th amendment guarantee's the right to vote without restrictions based on..for an example race.
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amendment 15 amendment 15 While the 15th Amendment is what prohibited the states from using race as a means to deny the right to vote. The times being what they were, though, in no way did the 15th create equal - or even open - access to voting. Poll taxes were one of the major ways local governments disenfranchised minorities and the poor; poll taxes were made illegal by the 24th Amendment. Therefore, it was actually a combination of the 15th and 24th Amendments that franchised black citizens.
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