2007-03-01 06:12:39 · 8 answers · asked by nbaignas 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
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The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution 1870
The American Civil War 1861-65
2007-03-01 06:23:03 · answer #1 · answered by Double O 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We have got to get the answer right. The 15th Amendment removed the ability to discriminate against voters based on race. It allowed all men the right to vote. The problem is that the south found ways around it. They used reading test and other test to keep the African-Americans from voting. The second thing it happened AFTER the Civil War. The amendment appeared during the period afterwords.
2007-03-01 08:38:37 · answer #2 · answered by MG 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Fifteenth Amendment (1870) is one of the Reconstruction Amendments passed after the civil war.
This amendment prohibits the states or the federal government from using a citizen's race, color, or previous status as a slave as a voting qualification. Its basic purpose was to enfranchise former slaves. The first person to vote under the provisions of the amendment was Thomas Mundy Peterson who cast his ballot in a Perth Amboy school board election being held on February 4, 1870, the day after the fifteenth amendment was ratified. But it was not really until the Voting Rights Act in 1965, almost a century later, that the full promise of the fifteenth amendment was actually achieved in all states.
2007-03-01 06:27:31 · answer #3 · answered by ryan s 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Blacks were not allowed to vote during the Civil War. The 15th amendment gave blacks the right to vote, but it wasn't passed until 1870. The Civil War ended in 1865.
2007-03-01 06:26:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
XV amendment to the Constitution in 1870
2007-03-01 06:20:16 · answer #5 · answered by Dave aka Spider Monkey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I belive it was the 13th or 14th or 15th amendment, I'm sure not it's been a while since I've studied that. But those are the closest options I can create for you. If I was who wants to be a millionare and the million dollar question was your question. I would pick the 14th. Hope I could help
2007-03-01 06:19:44 · answer #6 · answered by Frost bite 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
None...the Emancipation Proclamation declared blacks to be free and consequently it gave blacks all the rights and privileges the Constitution provides all Americans.
2007-03-01 06:18:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That didn't happen.
2007-03-01 06:20:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋