Question 1 • 670401 American Studies S1 – MYERS, JOSHUA A
The Fifteenth Amendment, ratified in 1870, prohibited the federal government and states from denying a citizen the right to vote because of race, color, or previous enslavement. Its purpose was to protect African American men’s voting rights after the Civil War, so the best answer is “To prevent discrimination against voters based on race.”
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