The Pros And Cons Of The 15th Amendment

The Fifteenth Amendment gave black males over the age of 21 the right to vote. However, southern states set up poll taxes and literacy test in order to keep most blacks from voting. In order to keep the white votes they set up the grandfather clause, which allowed the seventy-five percent of the poor illiterate white people to still vote if they were the son or grandson of someone who was eligible to vote before 1867.

Before the United States Constitution was implemented in 1788, there was a certain principle in society where only men of a Caucasian race had the right to vote in elections. Many people including women and those of different races and colors protested, marched, and fought get the right to vote. Since the country's leaders at the time were dissatisfied with the structure of the society and government they decided to make the US Constitution. With the making of the Constitution it created amendments to better the rights of people and create a better society. Since women and people of different colors and races wanted the right to vote, the constitution created the 15th and 19th amendment. According to the legal form institute website last updated on November 2nd of 2009, it stated that the 15th amendment was "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. According to the history.com website last updated in 2010, it stated that the 19th amendment "granted American women the right to vote—a right known as woman suffrage (S)". Ever since the constitution was made it made a huge effect on today's society and government which gives every single person the right to vote.

Jim Crow was a man who created laws, that affected many peoples lives during the 1960s. These laws made it much harder for blacks mainly in the South, but then it started to move upward in the United States. There were many purposes leading to creating these laws. During this era, blacks were excluded from many things and opportunities. These laws made many changes and changed how the things were after these laws were taken away. The Jim Crow Laws affected, harmed, excluded, and ruined many blacks and in some cases white peoples lives.

The fifteenth amendment was ratified on February 3, 1870, and it's contents stated, “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.” The amendment was one of the first major steps in ensuring racial equality throughout the United States. If a male former slave was someone who was just a slave ten years prior, was now able to vote to represent himself and his best interests. The 15th amendment was actually passed by different portions of the government on different dates. For instance, on February 25, 1869, the House of Representatives voted one hundred forty four in favor against forty four who opposed it. Meanwhile, in February 26, 1869, the Senate voted thirty-nine in favor against thirteen who opposed. And it’s

Though the federal government created Amendments giving rights to slaves, opposers prevented them from benefitting from their rights. Within the 13th Amendment, the national government affirmed that slavery wouldn’t be accepted in our country “except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted”. The added exception allows states to determine what crime is appropriate for the punishment that is similar, if not identical, to slavery. The state governments used the exception to their advantage, creating minute laws with severe punishments. Then the national government establish the 15th Amendment, giving the freed black men the opportunity to vote, as the right to vote couldn’t be denied “on account of race, color,

I am not sure there is such a thing as the “most important” amendment because they are all important with regard to the American people and the freedoms we have today. That being said, the amendment that had the most profound impact on U.S. history and government affairs alike is a triple header. According to Janda, the 13th, 14th, and 15th, ending slavery, granting new citizenships (including former slaves), and preventing any man from being deprived of his right to vote, respectively. Of those three amendments, the 15th has had the greatest influence on our government.

“It forbade all the states to deny the vote to anyone “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” This was the final blow to the southern states, which quickly ratified the amendment. By March 1870 the Fifteenth Amendment became apart of the Constitution. Now taking into consideration the hell that southern blacks were enduring, this short period of time consisted of three Amendments being passed that shed a light on the black population that most blacks at the time had given up on. Congress gave the opportunity for blacks to step out of slavery, accept citizenship, and take the power to vote and change the way the south had been ran. “The Radicals had at last succeeded in imposing their will on the South, Throughout the region former slaved had real political influence; they voted, held office, and exercised the “privileges” and enjoyed the “immunities” guarantied them by the Fourteenth Amendment…The spectacle of blacks not five years removed from slavery in positions of power and responsibility attracted much attention at the time and has since been examined exhaustively by historians.”

Throughout the Reconstruction period in the United States after the Civil War, African American’s were given many new rights, such as citizenship and the right to vote. One of these new rights was enacted in 1869, the Fifteenth Amendment, which gave African American men the right to vote. Many southern states, however, did not approve of this new amendment and sought ways to prevent African Americans from voting. Post-confederate, Democratic states found ways to disenfranchise the African American community. Preventive actions ranged in severity from murder and lynching, to fraudulent actions at the ballots, and even enforcing new state laws to prevent African American votes. The newly created Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment were supposed

I feel that the changes made in the 15th Amendment, which gave all citizens the right to vote regardless of race or color, and the 19th Amendment which gave women the right to vote improved our government, because after those amendments citizens who previously would not have had a chance to vote, now could. The opinions of those citizens could now be expressed through their votes thereby expanding the demographic of the United States democracy.

The 15th Amendment is the last of the three “Reconstruction amendments” that passed after the Civil War. This amendment outlaws the states or the federal government from using a citizen's race, color or previous status as a slave for voting qualification. Its basic purpose was to emancipate former slaves who weren’t allowed to vote and weren’t even considered American citizens before. But that was not until the Voting Rights Act in 1965, almost a century later, that the full promise of the 15th Amendment was achieved in all states.

The Fifteenth Amendment prohibits the government from denying a citizen's right to vote due to a specific race. With which the Congress will have the power by correct legislation to enforce this amendment. Congress passed the Fifteenth Amendment on February 26, 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 section was a huge success for African Americans and citizens of other races. In the early years of Reconstruction, around 1865, white Americans were debating whether suffrage should be given to

The first section to the fifteenth amendment clearly 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 the account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”1 The fifteenth Amendment was passed in 1870, after the Civil War and during reconstruction. Congress wanted to act before the Radical Republicans, and White Supremacists could when it came to the voting rights of the once enslaved African Americans. In Mississippi, a state largely affected by the emancipation of slaves, African Americans had made up for more than

The Passing of the 15th amendment in 1868 did give black men the right to vote. They were able to vote but were not permitted because they were blocked at the poles with threats of violence and death. The violence and intimidation of the Ku Klux Klan had a lot to do with the blocking of the blacks at the voting polls.

Even though the 14th amendment gave citizenship to everyone born or naturalized in the country, the first real legislation towards giving men of color the right to vote was the 15th amendment. The amendment ratified in 1870 stated 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 [library of congress, 1]." Technically speaking, this federal legislation should have been given the blacks the right to vote regardless of their status.

In the 19th century after the civil war the black population had nowhere to live and nowhere to work. Even though slavery was over they had nothing to their name so it was like they didn’t even have identities. The first act to get blacks the right to vote was in 1863 by president Abraham Lincoln. But before he could act upon his idea he was killed. When the 14th amendment was ratified it meant that there was citizenship for all blacks and voting rights for all blacks which the only state not to reject it was Tennessee. By 1968 all but three states ratified the 14th amendment, which was a part of the Military Reconstruction Act in 1867. After the end of reconstruction there was the 15th amendment. Which made no limits based on race, color or previous condition of servicetude. So in other words every black had the right to vote no matter what in any state. But all southern states made it difficult for blacks to vote, which included a poll tax, literary test and having 8 different boxes at the polls to confuse the blacks. The government tried to help the blacks be able to vote but it never really helped them because the hatred for blacks was too strong in the south.