Fifteenth Amendment

(noun)

an addition to the U.S. Constitution, adopted in 1870, which prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude"

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Examples of Fifteenth Amendment in the following topics:

  • The 15th Amendment

    • The Fifteenth Amendment prohibits states from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race.
    • The Fifteenth Amendment prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" (for example, slavery).
    • "The Fifteenth Amendment", an 1870 print celebrating the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in February 1870, and the advancements that African-Americans had made as a result of the Civil War.
    • State the group of citizens extended protection by the 15th Amendment

  • Informal Methods of Amending the Constitution: Societal Change and Judicial Review

    • However, formal recognition of the right of poor whites and black males, and later of women, was only fully secured in the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) and the Nineteenth Amendment (1920).

  • The Women's Suffrage Movement

    • In 1869, the Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution which gave black men the right to vote, split the movement.
    • In June 1919, the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote, was brought before the Senate, and after a long discussion it was passed, with 56 ayes and 25 nays.

  • Formal Methods of Amending the Constitution

    • In response to this pressure the Senate finally relented and approved what later became the Seventeenth Amendment for fear that such a convention—if permitted to assemble—might stray to include issues above and beyond the direct election of U.S.
    • Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution that have been ratified, Congress has specified the method of ratification through state conventions for only one: the 21st Amendment, which became part of the Constitution in 1933.
    • The states unanimously ratified the Bill of Rights; the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery; the Fourteenth Amendment, providing for equal protection and due process; the Fifteenth Amendment, prohibiting racial discrimination in voting; and the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women a federal constitutional right to vote.

  • The 19th Amendment

    • The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex.
    • The 19th Amendment recognized the right of American women to vote.

  • The First Amendment

    • The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights.
    • State the restrictions imposed upon the federal government and the rights accorded individuals by the 1st Amendment

  • The Second Amendment

    • The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights that protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
    • Ideals that helped to inspire the Second Amendment in part are symbolized by the minutemen.

  • The 16th Amendment

    • The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on Census results.
    • State the source of revenue made constitutional by the 16th Amendment

  • The Third Amendment

    • The Third Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits, in peacetime or wartime, the quartering of soldiers in private homes without the owner's consent.
    • The Third Amendment protects citizens against the quartering of soldiers in private homes.

  • The 21st Amendment

    • The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 17, 1920.
    • Joint Resolution Proposing the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution.