The 15th amendment is the amendment that prevents the government from blocking people's votes based on race. Later, the Enforcement Acts allowed federal prosecution of people who violated this right, such as the KKK.
The 15th amendment started with the African Americans The affrican Americans wanted the right to vote. They thought that since they were apart of this country they could have a say to vote.So they faught and wanted to have the right to vote.
After 10 former Confederate States (Tennessee had already been readmitted to the Union in 1866) had reluctantly amended their own State Constitution so as to conform with the US Constitution, including the 14th Amendment, they were also readmitted between 1868-1870.
Then the Congress passed the 15th Amendment, which stated that citizen's rights had not to be limited by: "race, color or previous condition of servitude.
Although it might have appeared that the purposes of emancipation and restoring the Union had been achieved, almost none of former Confederate States accepted "de facto" the observance of the law. Their ruler found ways to keep the white supremacy preserved and harm the black rights without formally infringing the Constitution.
This state of affairs was to endure until the rise of the civil right movement in the 1950s.
The 15th amendment allowed all race to vote in the US even if you were colored .
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The 15th amendment enabled blacks to vote.
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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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