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The 15th Amendment (XV) to the Constitution guaranteed the right to vote not be denied to anyone based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." It was ratified in 1870, and was the last of the three so-called "Civil War Amendments", following the 14th (XIV) in 1868 and the 13th (XIII) in late 1865 (after the war was over).

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The 15th amendment gave slaves the right to vote... technically. In actuality, people threw up other barriers to that right for a long, long time after by manipulating the laws in different ways. It was more than 100 years after this amendment in many places before people could vote without worrying about being denied over the issue of race.

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The Fifteenth Amendment. And it granted the right to vote, not just to former slaves, but to all racial minorities.

(OK, technically it didn't *grant* the right to vote to anyone. It said that the government *couldn't* use race, color, or "previous condition of servitude" to deny the right to vote. So, technically, if the government decided that *only* black people could vote, the *white* people could sue under the 15th Amendment.)

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The Fourteenth Amendment gave freedom to slaves. It was adopted on July 9, 1868.

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The 15th amendment

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