The Fifteenth Amendment
The fifteenth amendment was made to be able to give all black men the right to vote. Women were not able to gain the right to vote. In 1868, eleven states in the north did not allow blacks to vote in elections. Whites in the south made blacks take literacy tests and pay poll taxes. Until the 1860s, blacks continued to fight for this right. Until then the whites in the south used everything necessary to keep them from them from voting.
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