Read the excerpt from "A History of Voting Rights.”In 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution became law. The amendment established that the right of citizens of the United States to vote could not be denied by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

The excerpt describes the Fifteenth Amendment becoming part of the Constitution and setting a nationwide rule about voting rights. That is a change in national politics because it changed the country’s laws and the rights protected by the federal government. The amendment also affected society, but the passage focuses on a constitutional and political change.

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