Question

What were the outcomes of the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment? Check all that apply.

Answer 1

Options A, B, and E, are the right answers.

The  15th Amendment in the constitution of the America, granted the equal right to vote to the African American men. Though the Amendment provided the people of the America with equal voting rights bu the actual implementation of the rules could only be seen after a century. The Southern states through the use of the literary tests and poll taxes were able to effectively deprive the African American community.  

Answer 2

The outcomes of the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment were:

-Equal voting rights were upheld constitutionally.

-The right to vote was expanded to more Americans.

-Southern lawmakers created poll taxes and literacy tests in response.

The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution states that governments in the United States can not prevent a citizen from voting because of their race, color, or previous condition of servitude (slavery). It was ratified on February 3, 1870. But it was not until the Voting Rights Act in 1965, almost a century later, that the full promise of the fifteenth amendment was actually achieved in all states. Before the 1890s, many southern states imposed stringent voter qualification laws, including literacy tests and taxes. Some states even made it difficult to find a place to register to vote.