15th+Amendment

15th Amendment We studied about the politics of reconstruction. The reconstruction was the period during which the United States began to rebuild after the Civil War, lasting from 1865 to 1877. It borrowed slavery and equal rights. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 which gave African Americans Citizenship. Congress adopted the 14th Amendment. It provided a constitutional basis for the Civil Rights Act. People were titled to equal protection of the law by the southern states. Change was to open the way for Black voting on a scale. Former slaves were citizens, that Confederate leaders were wrong to force states to accept an amendment. The 15th Amendment is the third of the Reconstruction Amendments. In the U.S Constitution, it bands each government in the right to vote based on its race, or color. This was eventually due to the many Northern Republicans to leave their own laws. The Republican Party had black suffrage in the south to punish other confederates. The 15th amendment was the republican desire to gain power in both the north and the south. The Amendment did not establish male suffrage partly because Southern Republicans were afraid of loyalty tests. The Reconstruction state governments used to limit the influence of ex-Confederates. After the north defeated the south in the civil war, politicians faced the task of putting the divided country back together. This amendment says that all "citizens" have the right to vote no matter what their background has been. The 15th Amendment was not written just for people with light or dark skin color. The 15th was written for the past and for the present and for the future. People had to struggle to get there right to vote. Americans are to be in a new world with a new "equalized" reality. Congress has the power to design and to protect the right to vote for slaves and other types of racial people. Black men voted a lot of members across the south in the 1868 presidential election. Northern blacks petitioned Congress for an amendment for equal suffrage. The final form of the 15th amendment was moderate to some of the other version it never presented a significant change. [[http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/15thamendment.html/|

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