The 15th Amendment
What was the original purpose of the 15th amendment?
What is to give African Americans the right to vote
What right was given to African Americans by the 15th amendment?
What is the right to vote
What were some of the things people in the South deemed African Americans unable to vote?
What is they were seen as
Ignorant
Not American citizens
Or even incapable of completing simple tasks on there own
Who was the Nevada senator?
Who is William Steward
Why didn't the 15th amendment succeed at its purpose?
What is because it was undermined by the Southern U.S. citizens
What rights did the 15th amendment give women?
What is none
What types of segregation was portrayed?
What is legal and social
When was the 15th amendment passed?
February 26th, 1869
Were things fixed soon after the undermining of the amendment?
What is no, it took a while
What did this have to do with women?
What is absolutely nothing
When was the 15 amendment ratified?
What is February 3, 1870
What were at least two things the Southern Citizens did/used as tactics to undermine the 15th amendment?
What is by using poll taxes, literacy tests, and outright intimidation
How did poll taxes and literary tests, beside the fact that they couldn't pass them, affect African American's voting rights?
What is it intimidated them
“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or _______ by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
What is abridged
“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 _______________________."
What is previous condition of servitude
How long did this era last?
What is approximately 83 years