The Fifteenth Amendment, enacted in 1870, granted African Americans men the right to vote for the first time in American history, by establishing that the rights of U.S. citizens to vote must not be denied or abridged on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was one of the many first steps to legally stop discrimination in the nation. However, America would still have a long way to go to fully accomplish that, even after the 19th Amendment which expanded the right to vote for women.
Any male citizen had the right to vote, but voting was done in the city of Athens. Any male citizen had the right to sit on a jury and perform a public office. Apart from females, slaves were also not considered.
Communism, also known as a command system, is an economic system where the government owns most of the factors of production and decides the allocation of resources and what products and services will be provided.