The Fifteenth Amendment prohibited federal or state government from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color or previous condition of servitude" (i.e., slavery). It was ratified on February 3, 1870. It was one of the "Reconstruction Amendments." African Americans were tricked out of the vote though. Literacy laws were passed, and a poll tax enforced, which many former slaves did not have the money or education to pass or pay. Therefore, they still could not vote. The Voting Rights Act of Aug. 6, 1965 supported the Fifteen Amendment and made the promise a reality.
The 15th amendment enabled blacks to vote.
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The Fifteenth Amendment eliminated race as a restriction on voting.
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Women were not included in the 15th amendment. Back then women did not have as much right as men.
The 15th amendment guarantee's the right to vote without restrictions based on..for an example race.
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amendment 15 amendment 15 While the 15th Amendment is what prohibited the states from using race as a means to deny the right to vote. The times being what they were, though, in no way did the 15th create equal - or even open - access to voting. Poll taxes were one of the major ways local governments disenfranchised minorities and the poor; poll taxes were made illegal by the 24th Amendment. Therefore, it was actually a combination of the 15th and 24th Amendments that franchised black citizens.
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