Question

Which of the following was a provision of the Fifteenth Amendment?

Answer 1

The correct answer is:

Voting rights could not be denied based on race.

The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution forbids the federal government and every state from refusing a citizen the right to vote based on his race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

This amendment generated a division in the women's suffrage movement over the amendment not addressing the right to vote on account of sex.

Answer 2

Answer:

Voting right could not be denied based on race is the correct answer.

Explanation:

The fifteenth amendment safeguards the tights of the Americans to elect their leaders and vote in the elections. It lists the conditions that cannot be used to deny a person the right to vote, a person cannot be denied the right t vote on the basis of race, colour or his formal status as a slave. It was one of the major amendment because it allowed the African Americans not just the right to vote but also to be elected into public office. The blacks could not take advantage of Fifteenth amendment because the southern states enacted laws which prevented the people whose grandfather had not been citizens from voting  and getting elected.