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It was the ultimate stature to eradicate prejudice against anyone who was a slave, particularly African Americans. It was also a way of ensuring ex-slaves and anyone of a minority. Prejudice was still very much alive and well, and it wasn't until the Civil Rights movement did the real problem of prejudice start to be dealt with. Affirmative action was also an attempt to address the problem of prejudices. President JFK passed an executive order in 1961 for affirmative action, and President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965.
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What made the election of hundreds of African American leaders to local state and Congressional offices possible during the 1870s?
The passage of the Fifteenth Amendment
What does the fifthteen amendment guarantee?
What does the fifteenth amendment guarantee
What does the fifteenth amendment do for America?
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Which legislation was responsible for granting voting rights for African Americans?
the fifteenth amendment
Constitutional amendment guaranteeing blacks the right to vote?
14th amendment i think
What year was the Fifteenth Amendment passed in?
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed on February 3, 1870.
Which amendment Prohibits the government from denying a person right to vote on the basis of race?
The fifteenth amendment of the Constitution.
Why was the fifteenth amendment important during the civil war?
The 15th Amendment was not important during the US Civil War. The amendment was passed in 1870.
What is a sentence with the words fifteenth amendment in it?
The fifteenth Amendment is in the history book
Is fifteenth capitalized?
no, unless its the Fifteenth Amendment.
What was the result of the amendment process?
fifteenth amendment - section 1 answer- southern states passed laws to make it more difficult for African Americans to vote
What made the election of hundreds of African American leaders to local state and Congressional offices possible during the 1870s?
The passage of the Fifteenth Amendment
What does the fifthteen amendment guarantee?
What does the fifteenth amendment guarantee
Which lists the legislative acts in the chronological order in which they were passed?
The Thirteenth Amendmentthe 14th amendmentThe First Reconstruction ActThe Fifteenth Amendment
What was the Georgia Act?
A legislation passed by the Congress in 1869 that would return Georgia to military rule and required the state to ratify the Fifteenth Amendment.
The Thirteenth Amendment The Thirteenth Amendment The Fourteenth Amendment The Fifteenth Amendment What was the main purpose of these three amendments?
the thirteenth amendment freed all the slaves, the fourteenth amendment recognized all black and white men as citizens, and the fifteenth amendment gave ALL MEN the right to vote (women didn't get the right to vote until the nineteenth amendment) *In 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was followed by the 14th Amendment in 1866, which defined for the first time the definition of American citizenship. The Fifteenth Amendment passed by Congress in 1870 stated that no part of the federal government was to discriminate any citizen on account of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
What amendment to the US constitution provided for the right to vote regardless of race?
The fifteenth amendment of the Declaration of Independence declared that people of color had the right to vote.
