Multiple choice

Which amendment gave African-American men the right to vote?

  1. the Fifteenth Amendment

  2. the Fourteenth Amendment

  3. the Thirteenth Amendment

  4. the Seventeenth Amendment
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Explanation

The Fifteenth Amendment, ratified in 1870, prohibited the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude. The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery, and the Fourteenth Amendment granted citizenship and equal protection.

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