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Question

Compare and contrast the 15th, 19th, and 26th Amendments. Why they were ratified at the time which they were?

Answer 1

The 15th Amendment was a Reconstruction Amendment intended to give freed slaves the right to vote. The political motivation for this could be seen in two ways (positive spin) it gave male ex-slaves the same right as white men, and (negative spin) it punished the whites in the south by elevating their former "property" to their own level. There was probably some of both motivations involved. This was ratified in 1870

The nineteenth Amendment is the Women's suffrage amendment. There were two planks that the Women's Rights movement had emphasized from 1848 until this time: the right to vote, and prohibition of the sale of strong spirits. The reasons for the vote was obvious, that women deserved a voice in their government, for without it they were second class citizens. The reason for prohibition was that drink has a very bad influence on some people. Many of the women who were battered by their husbands were beaten while the husbands were drunk. The positive side of this amendment is that women will be allowed to vote. The negative side is that they had tried to defeat this amendment by linking it to the 18th amendment (Prohibition), but both passed. This was ratified in 1920.

The 26th Amendment gave the vote to 18 year olds. This had been an issue for many years, and the actions of our soldiers in World War II had a great deal to do with this. People had long said that if a boy is old enough to die for his country, he's old enough to elect the people who will send him to war. The Second World War had a huge number of boys in uniform who couldn't vote, Korea had fewer, but the situation was the same, Vietnam was likewise. With this amendment, I got the right to vote, in fact I registered to vote the same day I registered for the draft. The amendment was ratified in 1970.

My high school history teacher, Mr Richard DuFour, cautioned us after the amendment was ratified. We were mostly all 16 at the time, but we would be eligible to vote in the 1972 election. He said that the first vote for all the new voters from the first two amendments had elected administrations that ran into trouble during that term. In the 1868 election, US Grant was elected, and the administration was beset by scandal over treatment of Indians. In 1920 Warren Gamaliel Harding was elected, and his administration was beset by scandal over oil leases in Wyoming (Teapot Dome), in 1972, Richard Milhous Nixon was elected, and he turned out to be the only President to resign from office over Watergate.

Mr. DuFour had warned us to choose wisely, well .. some of us did.


P.S. I voted for McGovern.

Answer 2

here are websites to help you with your homework but in a nutshell the 15th gave African Americans (well it was not really worded exactly that way but that was the intention) the 19th gave women the right to vote and the 26th changed the age of voting from 21 yrs to 18 yrs.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/15thamendment.html.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-sixth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

Answer 3

Wow, that is it.

All three expanded the right to vote.
15th to people of color
19th to women
26th to young people.