Amendment+XV

= Amendment XV- Black Suffrage =

Made by: Maddy and Emma

Black Suffrage Section 1 is about how all citizens have the right to vote and the U.S. can not take that away this because of color, race or previous condition of servitude. Section 2 is about how the Congress has the power to enforce this law by making other laws.

This was proposed on February 26, 1870.

It took 342 days to ratifiy, but some states ratified it more than 100 years later. Altogether the states include: Nevada, West Virgina, Illinois, Lousiana, Michigan, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Maine, Massachusetts, Arkansas, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, New York, Indiana, Connecticut, Florida, New Hampshire, Virgina, Vermont, Alabama, Missouri, Minnesota, Mississippi, Rhode Island, Kansas, Ohio, Georgia, Iowa, Nebraska, Texas, New Jersey, Delaware, Oregon, California, Maryland, Kentucky and Tennessee. That is a total of 37 states.

Five events that were happening in the United States around the time the amendment was approved: 1. Ulysses S. Grant was president 2. The Forced Act was passed in 1870 3. Wyoming granted women the right to vote in 1869 4. The Knights of Labor was founded in 1869 5. The first transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869.

Four events that were happening around the world around the time the amendment was approved: 1. Germany became a United Nation in 1871 2. The Suez Canal was opened in 1869 3. A war between France and Prussia was fought in 1870-1871 4. The Third French Republic was established in 1870.

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