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CLEP US Government

Category - Pol. participation

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What was the significance of the Fifteenth Amendment (1870)?
  1. It granted Latinos the right to vote.
  2. It granted women the right to vote.
  3. It granted African Americans the right to vote.
  4. It granted 18 year-olds the right to vote.
  5. It granted non-citizens the right to vote.
Explanation
Answer: C - After the Civil War, the 15th Amendment was passed to force reluctant Southern states to allow African Americans the right to vote. For the next several decades, Southern states got around the amendment by creating other barriers such as poll taxes, literacy tests, and later constitutional knowledge tests (which had significantly harder questions if you were Black than if you were White). All of these restrictions were overturned by federal law or Supreme Court decisions from the 1940s-1960s.
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