Fifteenth+Amendment

=**Fifteenth Amendment-**=

The Fifteenth Amendment involved the citizens of the U.S.

 * ====The Article was ratified February 3, 1870====
 * ====During the Reconstruction, there was currently an issue with getting rid of descrimination.====
 * ====Previously, states held full responsibilty for determining voter qualifications, but longer held that power once descrimination was abolished.====
 * ====The issue was signifigant because the Republicans wanted to entrench power in the North and South.====


 * Arguments Against:**
 * ====African Americans are biologically inferior to white people (Social Darwinism) ====
 * ====The African Americans should be denied voting rights not because the color of their skin, but the lack of character which is essential to society ====
 * ====One can look back to the Constitution and see that the U.S. government was intended to be a white man's government. ====
 * ====The Republican Party misinterpreted Jefferson's statement, "all men are created equal" ====
 * ====Benjamin M. Boyer believed that the Founding Fathers had no intention of extending sufferage to African Americans ====
 * Blacks had to pay Poll Taxes, fees in order to vote.

**Arguments in Favor:**

 * ====Democracy in the United States permits universal suffrage.====
 * ====The Civil War settled that African Americans are a permanent part of the American people.====
 * ====African Americans have earned the right to vote.====
 * ====Roughly 179,00 free African American men volunteerely served in the U.S. Army.====
 * ====The black man accepts the American customs (religion and political idea).====
 * ====African Americans are eager to participate in American society and politics.====

Jefferson’s declaration that all men were created eqaul. This contributed to the Constitutional Reconstruction of the United States.
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