The 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring 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." Although ratified on February 3, 1870, the promise of the 15th Amendment would not be fully realized for almost a century. Through the use of poll taxes, literacy tests and other means, Southern states were able to effectively disenfranchise African Americans. It would take the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 before the majority of African Americans in the South were registered to vote.
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It had been more than five decades since the British had established a new colony.
Answer:
Secession would destroy the only democracy in existence and prove for all time - to both future Americans and the world - that a government of the people could not survive." Abraham Lincoln This Harper's Weekly illustration features members of the South Carolina delegation who resigned their seats on Christmas Eve 1860.
Explanation:
Because Lincoln embodied the striving for human freedom more than any figure in history. As far as Lincoln was concerned, secession was unconstitutional, and therefore the rebel states had never actually left the union. Why did the South have the right to secede?
Secession, as it applies to the outbreak of the American Civil War, comprises the series of events that began on December 20, 1860, and extended through June 8 of the next year when eleven states in the Lower and Upper South severed their ties with the Union. What did the Confederates stand for? Confederate States of America.
