The Fifteenth Amendment

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The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1870, specifically prohibits 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." It did not guarantee the right to vote regardless of gender, nor did it set property requirements for voting, nor did it apply only to former Confederate states, nor did it abolish slavery (that was the Thirteenth Amendment).