7.2.2 Quiz: Voting Rights in the United States
Question 6 of 10
2 Points
Read this excerpt from the Fifteenth Amendment:
Section 1. 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?
Why did this amendment require additional enforcement?
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A. Southern states created loopholes to prevent African Americans
from voting
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B. It gave African Americans voting rights without making them
citizens.
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C. Legislators failed to give the federal government the power to
force states to honor it.
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D. It was never ratified by a majority of states.

How does this cartoon represent an argument for the ratification of the constitution

Which word best describes early america foreign policy ?

"august 19th (1864)- how they quarreled and wrangled among themselves- alabama and mississippi, all were loud for joe johnston, save and except the long-haired, one-armed hero, who cried at the top of his voice: "oh! you all want to be kept in trenches and to go on retreating, eh? " "oh, if we had had a leader, such as stonewall (jackson), this war would have been over long ago! what we want is a leader! " shouted a (wounded man). they were awfully smashed-up, objects of misery, wounded, maimed, diseased. i was really upset, and came home ill. this kind of thing unnerves me quite." mary chestnut, a diary from dixie this entry from the diary of mary chestnut illustrates a) the lack of medical technology possessed by the confederacy. b) the military superiority of southern troops in the civil war. c) the effects of the emancipation proclamation on the southern economy and society. d) the loss of morale and confidence by the confederacy towards the end of the civil war.