Which answer states a provision of the Fifteenth Amendment?
• granted voting rights to all adult male citizens regardless of their race.
granted US citizenship to males of all races in the former Confederacy.
• granted freedom from slavery to male and female African Americans
• granted voting rights to all citizens who had not been kept as slaves
• granted voting rights to all adult male citizens regardless of their race.
The provision of the Fifteenth Amendment that granted voting rights is the following: "granted voting rights to all citizens who had not been kept as slaves."
The answer that states a provision of the Fifteenth Amendment is:
• granted voting rights to all citizens who had not been kept as slaves.
To find the correct answer, it's important to understand the provisions of the Fifteenth Amendment. The Fifteenth Amendment, ratified in 1870, prohibited the denial of voting rights based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude. This means that any citizen who had not been kept as a slave should not be denied the right to vote based on their race or color.
Among the answer choices provided, the only option that correctly reflects a provision of the Fifteenth Amendment is the one that states "granted voting rights to all citizens who had not been kept as slaves." This provision aimed to ensure that the voting rights of African Americans, who had previously been enslaved, were protected and that they were not denied the right to vote due to their race or previous servitude.
It is worth noting that the other answer choices do not accurately reflect the provisions of the Fifteenth Amendment. The first answer choice mixes the provision of the Fifteenth Amendment with the Fourteenth Amendment, which granted equal protection under the law to all citizens, regardless of race. The second answer choice confuses the Fifteenth Amendment with the Fourteenth Amendment, which granted U.S. citizenship to individuals born in the United States, including former slaves. The third answer choice refers to the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery in the United States but does not address voting rights.