Question

Read the text excerpt to answer the question that follows:

Answer 1

The answer is the fifteenth amendment because it's based on preventing the state and federal governments from allowing every race and color to vote

Answer 2

Answer: The right answer is the A) The Fifteenth Amendment.

Explanation: This is an excerpt from Frederick Douglass' speech “What the Black Man Wants,” which he gave in 1865, before the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in Boston. In it, he requested that African Americans be granted the right to vote, or enfranchisement, claiming that the fact that women, too, were not allowed to vote was not a justification for such deprivation.

The Fifteenth Amendmnent to the U.S Constitution declares that "the right of 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 condition of servitude." This is specifically what Frederick Douglass was defending in his speech - the other Amendments also protect the right to vote, but based on other premises.