The+15th+Amendment



The 15th amendment was ratified on 1870. Republicans wanted the 15th Amendment passed the right to vote to the freed slaves. The 15th Amendment ensured the right to vote to all male citizens of the United States.. The 15th Amendment opened the door for the elections of African Americans to the US Congress and to Southern local and state offices. Through the use of poll taxes, and literacy tests, Southern states were able to effectivelydeprive the rights of African Americans. It would take the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 before the majority of African Americans in the South were registered to vote. Many women suffragists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony worked alongside Black suffragists like Frederick Douglass to gain suffrage for both groups.When the 15th Amendment passed, it angered many women suffragists, and some of them even spoke out against Black suffrage. The 15th Amendment was passed on February 3 of 1870 by Congress. People never really paid any attention to it until about 10 years later. Ulysses S. Grant was the president at the time. [|The 15th Amendment]