True or False: It would not be until the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that the majority of African Americans in the South were allowed to register to vote.
True
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The _____ Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1868, gave citizenship to former slaves.
14th
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The ____ Amendment was important to all Black American men because it had been up to each state to determine voting rights.
15th
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15
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Freedmen received their citizenship with the passage of... (before the 14th Amendment)
the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
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How did Republicans gain control of all the new S state govts?
Freedmen's votes outnumbered those of white voters.
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This amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlawed discrimination in voting rights.
15th
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It is the ____ Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that abolished (got rid of) slavery.
13th
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The ____ amendment forbade voting restrictions due to discrimination based on race.
15th
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The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution were created as a direct result of this event in U.S. history.
Civil War
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The House impeached _____ forย trying to limit the effects of Radical Reconstruction legislation.
President Andrew Johnson
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The __________ Amendment was intended to give newly-freed slaves every right and freedom that everyone else enjoyed under the Bill of Rights.