Amendments that expand democracy 15th amendment - prohibits denial of voting rights based on race…
Three years after all the slaves were free the 14th and 15th amendments were ratified to grant African Americans citizenship, due process of law, equal protection under the law, and the right to vote. Southern states had been oppressing African Americans their whole lives, when they were slaves, and even after they were freed. With the 14th and 15th amendments passed African Americans would now have equal rights and there was nothing southern state governments could do about it, right? Wrong. The Southern states began to issue poll taxes.…
At the point when the fifteenth amendment was proposed it was a major step in reconstruction in 1869.The amendment guaranteed that any male citizen of different race, color, or previous condition of servitude could not be denied the right to vote. Republicans believed they had succeeded in giving African American men the right to vote.…
The opposition will propose that these laws restricted the black vote to insignificance. Although that may be true, it was the public opinion which pushed the lawmakers in that direction. As document 14.2 states, the white southerners want “to make it clear that the white south ‘does not desire or intend to ever include black men among its citizens’”. This set of laws was just an extension of the will of the people in those states who believed in white supremacy, and those laws were only followed because the people enforcing them believed they were…
The 15th amendment gave the right to vote to all male citizens…
citizen of any color to vote. After Reconstruction, the New South,” enacted literacy tests, poll taxes, elaborate registration systems, and eventually whites-only Democratic Party primaries to exclude black voters(Document L). In addition, a poll tax receipt from Louisiana 1918 required voters to pay an expensive tax of $1.00 to vote (Document K). During the time the $1.00 tax made voting a luxury because it was an exorbitant price. This resulted in millions of blacks being unfairly rejected from the voting process which was a violation of their voting rights. Literacy tests also prevented black voting since there would be a change in difficulty based on your race. A drastic decrease in black voters was a result of these laws which countered the 15th amendment. The opposite side may claim that the poll tax applied to blacks and whites. However, the grandfather clause says that taxes and tests don’t apply to men who have had a father vote, which allowed whites to vote for free while blacks never voted before. These obstacles diminished the effect of the 15th Amendment and continuous efforts were made to cripple the rights of African…
Constitution which was introduced in 1866 and ratified by 1868. This amendment states that people born in the U.S., and subjects to the jurisdiction are citizens of the U.S. It also declared that no state can enforce any laws to deny former slaves the right to vote. It also claims that former slaves are not properties and no state shall deprive any person of their life, liberty, and property without the approval of the law or government. The amendment emphasize that any male inhabitants of the state being twenty-one years old, and a citizen of the U.S. has the right to vote. In this statement, a half of the former slaves and other minorities like women couldn’t vote because women were not included in the amendment. The 14th Amendment attacked national court cases such as the Dred Scott and state cases such as People v. Hall in California. This amendment undermined Dred Scott case which said slaves were properties, and they could be moved into any state in the U.S. The amendment also undermined the People v. Hill case which claim non-white people doesn’t have the basic rights in state of California. Therefore, the 14th Amendment made a huge impact on former slaves by giving them the rights to vote, and basic rights as citizens of United…
law for states to deny citizenship on the basis of race. Although this was a step in the right direction for a rationalized solution to citizen rights for more egalitarianism within the nation, the political and civil inequality was only set to grow further. Following the fourteenth amendment came the equal protection clause and fifteenth amendment, both set to help solidify the groundwork for a better United States. To all egalitarians dismay, the introduction of Jim Crow Laws, laws that promoted the segregation and discrimination of African Americans¬, paved the way for further inequality. Jim Crow Laws authorized the segregation of many public sites such as schools, hospitals, and even water fountains. This unjust practice was fought against by many, unfortunately, to add…
Fifteenth amendment prohibits denying men the rights to vote based on their race. Men have been discouraged about not being able to vote or to have other opportunities.Me as the leader in our community, I think if we want to improve the condition of our African American life we would have to not give up and keep trying, lose some pride that we may have, and also let no one tell you what you are capable or what you’re not. Working together we could all make a difference and change anything, so our future would be better.…
Only a week before the inauguration of President Grant, the 15th Amendment was proposed, which declared that "the right to vote could not be denied on account of race." One year later the 15th…
As a group I believe we should include the word sex in the 15th amendment. If the states really wanted to get rid of the ugly institution of slavery, they also had to consider women as being slaves of that same institution. The mere fact that they were denied basic rights on the grounds of sex, implies that women were seen as lower status, and were expected to follow the rules set by men. Sojourner Truth, argues that the only way for slavery to be truly destroyed is for women to be able to vote; she also seems to be bothered by the fact that no one is talking about black women not getting their right to vote, when they too work as hard as any man.…
Voters such as Latinos were facing similar restrictions to voting in the state Texas and other parts of the Southwest, as well as the Asian Americans and Native Americans in the West. Unfortunately after the enactment of the 15th Amendment to the Constitution, in 1870, that allowed all men, regardless of race, color, or previous condition of enslavement the right to vote, plenty other states still continue to practice many schemes to prohibit people of color from voting, including; “poll taxes, the disenfranchisement of former inmates, intimidation, threats, literacy tests, and even violence”, according to (The History of VRA, n.d.). Although states were still restricting people of color from voting, states and localities were not challenged by the federal laws in the establishment and administrations of their voting requirements: not until 1965, when it was decided to be…
A federal anti-discrimination law that probits the employment discrimination based on race, colour, religion,sex or national origin.…
The 15th amendment is important because any and everyone can vote, but they have to have the age to be able to vote. “The 15th amendment was important in that it not only finally gave African Americans the right to vote, but also allowed the most African Americans in history to be elected into public office.” That is important because in the past this would have been outrages and Barack Obama might not had become the President of the United States of America…
The framers attempted to perfect the constitution by protecting the minority while giving majority some power. The Constitution was drafted by framers that took a lot of time and effort to make a document that has held this nation together for centuries. The framers protected the minority by limiting majority rule, but Beard believed that by limiting majority rule, it would be more of an economical advantage to the wealthy framers. The reason why the framers motive was more political than economic was because the framers wanted to make minorities equal to the majority. One way the framers limited the majority rule was by implementing amendment fifteen. Amendment fifteen prohibits the denial on race, color, or previous conditions of servitude; this protected the minorities, blacks, against the majority, whites. An example of amendment fifteen would be that if an black freed slave wanted to work for a store, the employer could not deny him for his color or his previous work as a slave. A different way the framers limited majority rule was by using Electoral College; this allowed minorities to also have a fair vote in the election of the President and Vice President. Charles Beard’s accusation does not contain any support and it was more likely that the reason the framers limited majority rule was to ensure that the minority also had power.…