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Slav-nsk [51]
2 years ago
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Explain how former slaves were denied their 15th amendment rights.​

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Ray Of Light [21]2 years ago
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The Fifteenth Amendment had a significant loophole: it did not grant suffrage to all men, but only prohibited discrimination on the basis of race and former slave status. States could require voters to pass literacy tests or pay poll taxes - difficult tasks for the formerly enslaved, who had little education or money.

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