Ratified in 1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution declared, “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.” While this amendment, passed...
1869. Most states didn’t ratify the amendment right away but after a years time three-fourths of the necessary states ratified it. The Fifteenth Amendment became a part of the Constitution in March 1870. During the period of Reconstruction, the Fifteenth Amendment was passed by Congress. This...
Fifteenth Amendment (1870), prohibiting discrimination in voting; Sixteenth Amendment (1913), giving Congress the power to levy and collect taxes on incomes; Seventeenth Amendment (1913), establishing the procedure for senatorial elections, including the introduction of the popular election of senators;...
The14th Amendment, approved by Congress in 1866 and ratified in 1868, granted citizenship to all persons “born or naturalized in the United States,” including former slaves, and guaranteed “equal protection of the laws” to all citizens. In 1870, Congress passed the last of the three so-...
The 15th Amendment says United States citizens cannot be denied the right to vote based on race, color, or previous servitude. When was the 15th Amendment passed? The 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed on February 26, 1869 and ratified on February 3, 1870.Create...
having ratified the Fourteenth Amendment as required by the first Reconstruction Act. The four remaining unreconstructed states—Virginia, Mississippi, Texas, and Georgia—were readmitted in 1870 after ratifying the Fourteenth Amendment as well as the Fifteenth Amendment, which guaranteed the black man'...
Who Grant's enemies were, however, is not hard to discover. Grant vigorously enforced the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments during the last years of Reconstruction. Georgia was temporarily returned to military rule until it ratified the Fifteenth Amendment -- it probably would not have been ratifi...
DeCasseres vowed to be the first man in America to take a drink after Utah ratified the 18th Amendment, bringing an end to Prohibition. He arranged to have a telegraph terminal installed in a Manhattan bar so he could be informed the instant the ratification vote passed in Salt Lake City....
In February 1869 the Fifteenth Amendment, making it unconstitutional to impose racial qualifications for suffrage, passed both Houses and was ratified by March 1870. The Radical plan of Reconstruction seemed triumphant.doi:10.1007/978-1-349-81696-5_8W. R. Brock...
Freedmen voting in New Orleans, 1867.Bettmann/Getty Images Ratified on February 3, 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment prohibited the states from limiting the voting rights of their male citizens “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” However, the amendment did not prohibit...