What Was The Significance Of The 15 Amendment
HOW DID THE 13TH, 14TH & 15TH AMENDMENT SHAPE AMERICA .
THE 15TH AMENDMENT
“The right to citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race color, or previous conditions of servitude.” This amendment was granting African American men the right to vote. This was adopted into the United States Constitution on the 30th of March in 1870. It was passed by the congress a year before. By the late 1870’s, many people of Caucasian race did not want this amendment to pass. They did not want the African American people to vote especially in the South states. After years and many months of discrimination towards one color the voting right act of 1963 came to overcome its barriers at local levels still trying to deny blacks their rights to vote under the 15th amendment congress stayed on this topic for two months or more having several different versions of the amendment, some were submitted, questioned, overruled, and reevaluated in the house and senate
THE 14TH AMENDMENT …show more content…
The 14th amendment is a legislation in the United States that was ratified, or give formal consent to (a treaty, contract, or agreement), making it valid on the 9th of July in 1868. The legislation grants citizenships to all people born or naturalized in the United States. It’s also forbids states from denying any life, liberty or property, without a process of law. It was meant to protect the civil rights of all Americans regardless of their race or gender. The amendment demonstrated the change in attitude, which hit many Americans after the civil war. This was also the first amendment to try to legally challenge Caucasian by creating an equal or more civilized society instead of whites leading a group higher than blacks. They tried to make things more equivalent to blacks and whites, but they just put the color between them instead of the person
THE 15TH AMENDMENT
“The right to citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race color, or previous conditions of servitude.” This amendment was granting African American men the right to vote. This was adopted into the United States Constitution on the 30th of March in 1870. It was passed by the congress a year before. By the late 1870’s, many people of Caucasian race did not want this amendment to pass. They did not want the African American people to vote especially in the South states. After years and many months of discrimination towards one color the voting right act of 1963 came to overcome its barriers at local levels still trying to deny blacks their rights to vote under the 15th amendment congress stayed on this topic for two months or more having several different versions of the amendment, some were submitted, questioned, overruled, and reevaluated in the house and senate
THE 14TH AMENDMENT …show more content…
The 14th amendment is a legislation in the United States that was ratified, or give formal consent to (a treaty, contract, or agreement), making it valid on the 9th of July in 1868. The legislation grants citizenships to all people born or naturalized in the United States. It’s also forbids states from denying any life, liberty or property, without a process of law. It was meant to protect the civil rights of all Americans regardless of their race or gender. The amendment demonstrated the change in attitude, which hit many Americans after the civil war. This was also the first amendment to try to legally challenge Caucasian by creating an equal or more civilized society instead of whites leading a group higher than blacks. They tried to make things more equivalent to blacks and whites, but they just put the color between them instead of the person