After the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation by President Lincoln, the next step was giving voting rights to African American males. Some abolitionists were eager to fight for the right of women to vote (called "women's suffrage"-- at that time, women could not vote at all, no matter what color they were); but it was decided to focus on at least getting the vote for black men. The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which was ratified in 1870, gave black men voting rights, although it should be noted that thanks to the "Jim Crow Laws," most southern black men still were denied the right to vote.
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Freed former slaves received the right to vote.
.A constitutional amendment allowing women the right to vote.
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The women got the right to vote
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Women didn't have the right to vote until 1920 and the passage of the 19 amendment, so no woman could vote in the 1860's.
No, voting rights for women came in 1920, about 60 years after the Civil War (1861-1865).
Slaves and women had the right to vote.
The war had a good impact and a bad one women got rights then lost the right to vote
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When the civil war ended when the south surrendered thats how they got the right to vote.
They wanted the right to vote and to be seen as an equal to men.
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