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On this day in history, February 3, 1870, 15th Amendment is ratified, granting Black males the right to vote
the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified — granting African American men the right to vote. The amendment declared that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall ...
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Passage of the Fifteenth Amendment
Congress spent the days between Grant's election and his inauguration drafting this new amendment, which would be the 15th added to the Constitution ... born in the United States, including ...
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Suffrage—Race
The right of citizens of the United States ... to the current Fifteenth Amendment. However, a number of prominent Republicans complained that this narrow language would allow states intentionally ...
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Equality and The Fourteenth Amendment: A New Constitution
Of the Civil War Amendments ... of Rights to the states as well as the national government. And finally, the Fourteenth Amendment introduced the ideal of equality to the Constitution for the ...
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Reserved Powers of the States
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. The Tenth Amendment expresses the ...