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Historical Background

The 15th Amendment

Why the 15th amendment necessary?

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After the Amendment was passed

The 15th amendment was necessary because the Southern African-Americans were not being able to vote on a count of their skin color and personal or family background.

After the amendment’s ratification, southern blacks ran to the polls. More than 700,000 Afrian-Americans had gone to be registered to vote. Most of them declared themselves Republicans.

Also many African-American civic societies and political organizations began to start all across the South, most led by prominent blacks who had been freedmen since before the Civil War.

What led to the 15th amendment?

Radical Republicans feared that black suffrage might be revoked in the future, so they decided to amend the Constitution to solidify this right. They also believed that giving blacks the right to vote would weaken southern elites, who had regained political power in the South. So, this led to the 15th amendment.

Also, many of the African-Amerians that want to vote had to take go through what are called grandfather clauses, literacy test and poll taxes. This was unfair treatment, since they were given harder subjects than the whites were.

When was it ratified?

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This amedndment was passed by Congress on February 26, 1869, but was not ratified unitl February 3, 1870

What is the historical significance of the 15th amendment?

Who was it created for?

It is significant because it gave African-Americans, both former slaves and free ones, the right to vote. The Civil War was now over, the slaves had been freed, but southern states had still not given people the right to vote. The 15th amenement gave them the ability to vote for whoever they wanted.

What is the contemporary significance of the 15th amendment?

This amendment was made for the Southern African-Americans the right to vote

In the world todya, the 15th amendment allowed for many of the African-Americans to go into the political fields and into higher powers. For example, if the 15th amendment was not ratified there wouldn't have been a black president. The 15th amendment also lead to many of the other races to not be discrimated against.

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Significance

What is the 15th amendment?

Impact on the world today

The 15th amendment is the amendment in the Bill of Rights that states someone cannot prevent a person from voting because of race, color, or creed.

The 15th amendment not only gave African Americans the right to vote, but it also lead to the allowence of African Americans to be elected into public office. Once in office, laws were established that provided schools to all children of different races and it allowed people of different races to get married.

The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was the last of the three Reconstruction Amendments passed after the Civil War

Conclusion

In conclusion, the 15th amendment is the one out of three amendments from the reconstruction amendments in the U.S constitution that state someone cannot prevent a person from voting because of race, color, or creed. This amendment was originally created for the Southern African-Americans in 1870. The amendment later led to many other evolutions for the African-Americans.

Resources

  • "African Americans and the 15th Amendment." Constitutional Rights Foundation. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Oct. 2013. <http://www.crf-usa.org/black-history-month/african-americans-and-the-15th-amendment>.
  • Banfield, Susan. The Fifteenth Amendment: African-American Men's Right to Vote. Springfield, NJ: Enslow, 1998. Print.
  • Darling, Marsha J. Tyson. Race, Voting, Redistricting, and the Constitution: Sources and Explorations on the Fifteenth Amendment. New York: Routledge, 2001. Print.
  • Gillette, William. The Right to Vote: Politics and the Passage of the Fifteenth Amendment. Baltimore [u.a.: Johns Hopkins, 1969. Print.
  • "Reconstruction (1865–1877)." SparkNotes. SparkNotes, n.d. Web. 20 Oct. 2013. <http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/reconstruction/section3.rhtml>.

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