Chapter12wikimaggio

Chapter 12  15th amendment The 15th amendment gave all citizens in the US the right to vote regaurdless of their race. This amendment came after freeing the slaves (13th amendment) and granting of citizenship to everyone born in the US (14th amendment). This 15th amendment gave everyone the right to vote but all the elections were held by whites so most of the time when some white people in the south saw black people about to vote, they stopped them however way they could. This led to the idea: are these newly freed people actually free? They are not free from opression. This brought the Freedmen's Bureau and the Civil Rights act of 1866 into affect that Andrew Johnson had to veto to keep reconstruction on the rise. Photo: "Fifteenth Amendment: Power to Congress over Voting Discrimination." David J. Shestokas. Web. 5 Oct. 2015. .