The 15th Amendment addressed suffrage for which group?

• A. African-American men
• B. Women
• C. Native Americans
• D. White men with property

Answer: (A)

This question is about who the Fifteenth Amendment protected when it comes to voting. Ratified in 1870, it states that the right to vote cannot be denied based on race, color, or a person’s previous condition of servitude. This aimed to secure the ballots of African American men who had been enslaved and then freed, ensuring they could vote in federal and state elections.

It does not grant women the right to vote—that milestone comes later with the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. Native Americans were not universally enfranchised by this amendment, as their citizenship and voting rights were addressed more fully in later years. And white men with property had already won voting rights in many places long before 1870, so the amendment did not specifically expand rights for that group.