How did passage of the Fifteenth Amendment shape future Republican policy?
A) It allowed Republicans to ignore black rights in the future.
B) It encouraged Republicans to take on southern labor policies.
C) The Republican party turned to land redistribution as its new central issue.
D) It ensured that the Republicans would become a primarily southern political party.

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The Fifteenth Amendment, which aimed to prohibit the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude," inadvertently allowed Republicans to shift their focus away from black rights in subsequent years. After its passage, there was a perception among some Republicans that the major legal battles for African American rights had been won, leading to a decreased emphasis on civil rights issues as central party policy in the years that followed.

How Did Passage of the Fifteenth Amendment Shape Future Republican