Question

Read the text excerpt to answer the question that follows: "I say, now is the time to press this right. It may be asked, "Why do you want it? Some men have got along very well without it. Women have not this right." Shall we justify one wrong by another? This is a sufficient answer. Shall we at this moment justify the deprivation of the Negro of the right to vote, because someone else is deprived of that privilege?" Which amendment satisfied the goal described in this statement?

1.Fifteenth Amendment
2.Nineteenth Amendment
3.Twenty-fourth Amendment
4.Twenty-sixth Amendment

Answer 1

1. Fifteenth Amendment

Step-by-step explanation:

The 15th Amendment states: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

The fifteenth Amendment allowed African-American men the privilege to cast a ballot. It was received into the U.S. Constitution in 1870. Regardless of the change, by the late 1870s, unfair practices were utilized to keep African Americans from practicing their entitlement to cast a ballot, particularly in the South. It wasn't until the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that legitimate hindrances were banned at the state and nearby dimensions in the event that they denied blacks their entitlement to cast a ballot under the fifteenth Amendment.

Answer 2

The correct answer is actually the Fifteenth Amendment. I chose the 2nd option and got it wrong