Fifteenth Amendment

American  

noun

1. an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1870, prohibiting the restriction of voting rights “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

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Example Sentences

A further provision has been since added, which is embraced in the fifteenth amendment.

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 7, part 2: Rutherford B. Hayes by Richardson, James D. (James Daniel)

In regard to the fifteenth amendment, I shall only say, that if my interpretation of the fourteenth amendment is correct, there was still an object to be accomplished and which was accomplished by the fifteenth.

From An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting by Anonymous

Virginia, number of Negro troops furnished by, 300; comparative statistics of education, 388;institutions for the education of Negroes, 392;ratifies the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the U. S., 422.Wetmore,

From History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by Williams, George Washington

By the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States there can be no discrimination made in regard to voting on account of race, color or previous condition.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

How many of the large class to whom the right of voting is supposed to have been secured by the fifteenth amendment, are qualified to hold office?

From An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting by Anonymous