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The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race,...
Passed by Congress February 26, 1869, and ratified February 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government and each state from denying or abridging a citizen's right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." It was ratified on February 3, 1870, [1] as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Fifteenth Amendment, amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States that guaranteed that the right to vote could not be denied based on “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
The 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified on February 3, 1870. The amendment reads, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
Following the election of President Ulysses S. Grant, the “lame duck” third session of the Fortieth Congress passed the amendment on February 26, 1869, and sent the proposed Fifteenth Amendment to the states for ratification.
The Fifteenth Amendment is the last of the three Civil War Amendments, 1. adopted in response to the end of the American Civil War with the intent to grant the federal government additional powers to address the lingering remnants of slavery. 2. The Fifteenth Amendment addresses the right of suffrage, 3.
The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
Constitution of the United States. Fifteenth Amendment Explained. Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude–. Section 2.
The 15th Amendment was ratified on February 3, 1870, banning racial discrimination in voting. While the 1787 Constitution left the issue of voting primarily to the states, the amendment empowered the national government to protect African Americans from discrimination at the ballot box.