Amend15C6

=15C6= =Fifteenth Amendment=

Question1 :What is the importance of the 15th amendment? BS
 * Essential Question: How do the issues which prompted the creation of the amendments compare with the issues they are applied to today? **
 * Seventh Grade Language Re-Wording: This amendment allowed African Americans the right to vote. Regardless of any citizen's race, color, o **** r previous condition of servitude. **

Answer : The 15th amendment was important because it finally gave African Americans the right to vote, but also allowed the most African Americans in history to be elected into public office. []

Question 2:When has the 15th amendment been used? BS

Answer :The 15th amendment is applied every election year. []  Question 3: What does the 15th amendment protect? BS

Answer: The 15th amendment prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on the citizens race,color,or previous condition of servitude. []

Question 4: What were problems with the 15th amendment ? BS

Answer: California and Oregon would not ratify the amendment due to the large amount of Chinese immigrants that lived there. []

Question 5: Why did some feminists not support the 15th amendment? BS

Answer: Some feminists didn't supported the 15th amendment because women weren't allowed to vote [] 

**Question 8: When was the 15th amendment finally passed? TJ** **Answer 8: The 15th amendment was finally passed on February 26th, 1869. As mentioned before, it was a long process because of a couple hesitant states.** **Question 9: What affect did the 15th amendment have on the three/fifths compromise?** **TJ** **Answer 9: The affect was that the 15th amendment ensured a man of any race of color, race or previous condition of servitude the ability to vote. This totally defied the three fifths compromise, because the point of the three fifths compromise was to have more white politicians and voters than other races. This changed it because any amount of any person could now vote, no matter the race, color, or previous condition of servitude.** **Question 10: What was the most direct attack on the problem of racial disenfranchisement? TJ** **Answer 10: This happened in the year 1965, when there was too many reports of constant discriminatory voting practices mainly in the southern area in the United States. This was then resolved because of this amendment.**
 * Question 6: When was this amendment ratified? TJ **
 * Answer 6: The 15th amendment was ratified on February 3rd, 1870. However, it was not necessarily put to use until about another century later after it's publishing. The reason is because a couple states, (Such as California and Oregon) because of their big immigrant populations, ** **hesitated signing the law.**
 * Question 7: Who signed this amendment into law? TJ **
 * Answer 7: President Lyndon Johnson signed this amendment into law. This event took place on August 6th, 1965, when he asked congress to pass legislation to make it impossible to "thwart" the amendment. **