the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified — granting African American men the right to vote. The amendment declared that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall ...

In March 1920, West Virginia ratified the 19th Amendment in a historic vote with the rest of the nation watching. And, the ...

Congress spent the days between Grant's election and his inauguration drafting this new amendment, which would be the 15th added to the Constitution ... born in the United States, including ...

Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of October following the ratification ... The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed. [2.] The ...

The right of citizens of the United States ... to the current Fifteenth Amendment. However, a number of prominent Republicans complained that this narrow language would allow states intentionally ...

The right of citizens of the United States to ... by three-fourths of the states in 1920. Sargent’s proposal simply repeated the language of the Fifteenth Amendment save for one change: whereas ...

On March 10, 1920, the West Virginia legislature ratified the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution to guarantee women the right to vote. West Virginia was ...

Of the Civil War Amendments ... of Rights to the states as well as the national government. And finally, the Fourteenth Amendment introduced the ideal of equality to the Constitution for the ...

“The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments were designed to ... and deal with the rights of all people in the United States. Eagle-eyed Constitution readers will notice that the 14th Amendment contains ...

The original Constitution ... fifteenth amendment on February 26, 1869, and the necessary number of states ratified it on February 3, 1870. Section 1 reads: “The right of citizens of the United ...