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The Fifteenth Amendment: Expanding Voting Rights After the Civil War
The American Civil War ended in the late spring of 1865 ... was a requirement for readmission to the union. The Fifteenth ...
What Democrats Can Learn from America’s First Black Voters
After the Civil War, Black voters faced danger and violence—and they fought for political power against all odds.
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This constitutional amendment revolutionized voting in U.S. and preceded women's suffrage
The 15th Amendment was a milestone for civil rights. The amendment was ratified in February 1870. We had just fought a Civil War, ending in 1865, where soldiers fought brother against brother and ...
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Equality and The Fourteenth Amendment: A New Constitution
Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the most far-reaching effect on the meaning of the Constitution. It conferred both national and state citizenship upon birth, thereby ...
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Abolition & Suffrage
It was only in the aftermath of the Civil War, when Republican politicians introduced the 14th and 15th amendments to the U.S. Constitution extending citizenship and suffrage to former slave men ...