What was the result of a loophole in the Fifteenth Amendment?
A) The law did not protect black suffrage in the South, only in the North.
B) Some states refused to recognize the rights of black women to vote.
C) The law did not deny states the power to restrict suffrage.
D) The law effectively disenfranchised poor whites in some states.

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The Fifteenth Amendment, aimed at prohibiting the denial of the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude, did not explicitly prevent states from implementing other voting restrictions, such as literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses, which were used to disenfranchise African American voters.

What Was the Result of a Loophole in the Fifteenth