Sample Sentences forFifteenth Amendment (editor-reviewed)
Fifteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
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The Fifteenth Amendment was meant to protect the voting rights of formerly enslaved men after the Civil War.Fifteenth Amendment = U.S. constitutional amendment prohibiting racial discrimination in voting
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By the 1890s, many southern states undermined the Fifteenth Amendment through requirements such as literacy tests and poll taxes.
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For her project, she showed how the Fifteenth Amendment and later civil rights laws worked together to expand voting rights.
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So the Freedmen's Bureau died, and its child was the Fifteenth Amendment.† (source)
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The ideal of liberty demanded for its attainment powerful means, and these the Fifteenth Amendment gave him.† (source)
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