15 Amendment Pros And Cons

Our really cool Civics teacher told us to pick an amendment and write about it. So I picked the 15th Amendment with is “Reserves citizens the suffrage rights regardless of their color, race, or previous slave status.” The 15th amendment summed up is pretty much just the Constitution granted African American man the right to vote by declaring and shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of color, race, or previous conditions of servitude. The 15th amendment was a Civil War amendment along with 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. They were all right after the Civil War. The real purpose of the 15th amendment was to ensure that states or communities we're not denying men the right to vote simply based on their

race. The right to vote is known as suffrage and suffrage is the right to vote. The 15th amendment, which was ratified in 1870 had two parts. The First Part stated that the right of citizens to vote will not be denied or abridged on account of color, race, and or previous condition of servitude. The Second Part granted U.S. Congress the power to enforce through power. Southern states resented the new laws imposed by the Northern states. For instance, members of the Klue Klux Klan or the kkk terrorized African American men and scared them away from voting. The Klue Klux Klan, or kkk, is the most well-known and oldest hate group in the United States. It was established during Reconstruction. The kkk also targeted and attacked Republican leaders and white citizens who assisted former slaves in their attempt to vote. Southern state parliament started passing laws to inhibit African American voting. Poll taxes which charged a fee at the time of voting, kept former slaves and many poor whites from voting because they could not afford the tax. Literacy tests forces voters to take an exam before being allowed to vote, which former slaves and poor whites could not pass because of their lack of educatio. The grandfather clause allowed any male to vote as long as his ancestors were willing to vote prior to 1866, mostly denied African Americans.