The 15th Amendment stated that “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." However, while the former slaves were given the right to vote, there were still other ways for Southerners to get around the law. In the South, they passed voting taxes and made literacy tests that one must take in order to be able to vote. This still inhibited the African American’s right to vote. The new laws that combated the 15th Amendment also took away rights from poor white people or people from poor financial backgrounds. This made it so that one rich white men were in charge of the government in the South, continuing to make change very difficult.
How did the poor white people and people from poor financial backgrounds overcome that difficulty? How does the 15th Amendment affect the US now?
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